Rex Culpepper, former Syracuse quarterback, dead at 28 from injuries in Georgia dirt bike crash

Rex Culpepper, a erstwhile Syracuse Orange quarterback, died this past play owed to injuries suffered successful a ungraded motorcycle mishap successful Georgia. He was 28. 

"Our Orange household mourns the nonaccomplishment of Rex Culpepper, who passed distant this play astatine the property of 28," the Syracuse shot programme said successful a connection connected X. "Rex lived his beingness with endless passion, having flooded crab astatine the property of 20 portion playing for the Orange. 

"Appearing successful 30 games, Rex played shot arsenic fierce arsenic helium lived life. Our hearts are with the Culpepper household & each those who loved him."

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Rex Culpepper of the Syracuse Orange runs retired for the crippled against the Holy Cross Crusaders astatine the Carrier Dome connected Sept. 28, 2019 successful Syracuse, New York. Syracuse defeats Holy Cross 41-3. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

Culpepper’s fiancée, Savanna Morgan, confirmed his decease successful an emotional, heartbreaking Instagram station with photos and videos of them together. 

Culpepper had conscionable projected to Morgan little than 1 period ago. 

"No 1 expects to conscionable the emotion of your beingness and suffer them successful lone 6 abbreviated years aft meeting," Morgan began the caption of her post. "Rex didn’t ever judge successful soulmates but towards the extremity helium told maine that helium didn’t recognize what having a soulmate felt similar until we felt similar extensions of each other. 

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"And 1 happening astir america is that we lived each azygous time similar it was our last. We did each small happening that we acceptable our minds to, betwixt learning caller skills and hobbies, and traveling to caller places, determination was ne'er immoderate escaped clip with america and not a infinitesimal spent apart. I don’t regret a azygous time successful our 6 years. 

Rex Culpepper of the Syracuse Orange warms up earlier the crippled against the Holy Cross Crusaders astatine the Carrier Dome connected Sept. 28, 2019 successful Syracuse, New York. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

"You made six years consciousness similar a beingness Rexy."

Culpepper chiefly played arsenic the Orange’s backup backmost during his clip with the programme from 2017 done 2020. He did yet get into games arsenic a choky extremity arsenic well. 

During his treatment, Culpepper became rather the sanction connected the Orange shot team, arsenic helium participated successful the 2018 outpouring game, throwing a touchdown connected the last thrust to a roaring assemblage and sideline with his teammates and coaches applauding his efforts. 

He saw clip successful 30 vocation games, 16 of which astatine backmost wherever helium threw for 1,546 full yards with 11 touchdowns. 

As Syracuse mentioned successful its post, Culpepper battled crab portion with the programme aft being diagnosed with testicular crab successful March 2018. He underwent extended chemotherapy to dainty his illness, and helium was declared cancer-free successful June of that year. 

Syracuse Orange backmost Rex Culpepper talks to teammates connected the sideline during the assemblage shot crippled betwixt the Syracuse Orange and the Pittsburgh Panthers connected Sept. 19, 2020 astatine Heinz Field successful Pittsburgh, PA. (Mark Alberti/Icon Sportswire)

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Culpepper is besides the lad of erstwhile Tampa Bay Buccanners antiaircraft tackle, Brad Culpepper, who was a starter with the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears arsenic good implicit his NFL career. 

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