Kentucky football mourns Nic Smith after defensive lineman found dead on campus

Nic Smith, a antiaircraft lineman for Kentucky, has died, the programme announced. He was 20.

Smith spent past play arsenic a redshirt freshman with the Wildcats. "Today our hearts are broken. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nic’s family, friends, teammates and everyone who knew and loved him," Kentucky manager Will Stein wrote Monday connected X.

According to a assemblage spokesperson, field constabulary were called to an on-campus residence hallway aft receiving a study of a imaginable body. Later that day, the assemblage announced Smith’s death.

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A Kentucky Wildcats helmet is shown during the crippled against the Missouri Tigers astatine Memorial Stadium successful Columbia, Missouri connected Oct. 27, 2018. Oct. 27, 2018. Kentucky won 15-14. (Denny Medley/USA TODAY Sports)

The schoolhouse authoritative added that the University of Kentucky Police Department was moving with the Lexington-Fayette County Coroner, and an archetypal probe did not bespeak that foul play was involved.

"This is simply a tremendous nonaccomplishment for our programme and assemblage community. We volition proceed to enactment 1 different and grant his memory," Stein's connection continued.

Smith was a sophomore successful the assemblage enactment and improvement programme successful the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. His nicknames were "Happy" and "Big Happ," according to his biography leafage connected the Kentucky diversion department's website.

Kentucky antiaircraft lineman Nic Smith (55) poses during a photograph shoot. (Photo courtesy of University of Kentucky Athletics)

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He played shot and hoops astatine Walnut Grove High School successful Loganville, Georgia.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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