Jaylon Ferguson, an out of doors linebacker with the Baltimore Ravens who died final month after being discovered unresponsive in a North Baltimore dwelling, died from the mixed results of fentanyl and cocaine, the authorities mentioned on Friday.
Bruce Goldfarb, spokesman for the Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maryland, mentioned Mr. Ferguson’s loss of life had been dominated unintended.
The Baltimore police beforehand mentioned that detectives had been investigating and had not dominated out the potential for an overdose. Detective Vernon Davis, a police spokesman, mentioned on Friday that the investigation was persevering with, and he declined to reply additional questions concerning the case.
The authorities had been known as to a North Baltimore dwelling on June 21 simply earlier than 11:30 p.m. to analyze a “questionable loss of life.” Once they arrived, Mr. Ferguson, 26, was unresponsive and paramedics pronounced him useless on the scene. There have been no indicators of trauma or foul play, the authorities mentioned on the time.
Chad Steele, a spokesman for the Ravens, mentioned that the group was targeted on the optimistic influence Mr. Ferguson had as a “father, son, fiancé, pal and teammate.”
“It will be inappropriate for us to remark additional whereas we proceed to assist his household and teammates, who’re mourning the tragic lack of a beloved one and can have a good time his life tomorrow,” Mr. Steele mentioned on Friday.
The Ravens chosen Mr. Ferguson through the third spherical of the 2019 N.F.L. draft because the eighty fifth general decide. In his rookie season, he recorded 31 tackles and a couple of.5 sacks, and he contributed to a Ravens protection that ranked third in factors allowed. In 2020, in a recreation towards the Cincinnati Bengals, he recorded a profession excessive of six tackles.
Mr. Ferguson, a Louisiana native and a graduate of Louisiana Tech College, broke the N.C.A.A. document for profession sacks with 45, incomes the nickname “Sack Daddy” and beating out a longtime former Ravens participant, Terrell Suggs, who posted 44 profession sacks at Arizona State College.
