Medrick Burnett Jr., 20, was playing his first season as a linebacker with Alabama A&M University when he sustained a head injury during the annual Magic City Classic in Birmingham against in-state rivals Alabama State University on October 26, the Jefferson County coroner said in a statement Friday.

Medrick Burnett Jr., a 20-year-old Alabama college football player, died on Nov. 27, over a month after he was hospitalized following an in-game head injury. The Jefferson County Coroner's Office confirmed Burnett's death two days after his school retracted a false death announcement.