RIP to Gaines Adams.

[Chamillitary Click]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d815c91c1&template=with-video-with-comments&confirm=true

Chicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams died Sunday morning in South Carolina after going into cardiac arrest because of an enlarged heart, Greenwood County coroner Jim Coursey said.

Coursey told NFL Network that Adams, 26, was experiencing “health issues” Sunday, so his girlfriend called for an ambulance. Adams arrived at Self Regional Hospital in Greenwood just after 8 a.m. ET and was pronounced dead in the emergency room at 8:21 a.m.

» Comissioner reacts to Gaines' death An autopsy conducted Sunday showed Adams had an enlarged heart, a condition that Greenwood County chief deputy coroner Marcia Kelley-Clark told The Associated Press can often lead to a heart attack. But Adams' relatives didn't know about it.

"Nobody was aware of any kind of medical condition," Kelley-Clark said.

Toxicology tests are being run by the State Law Enforcement Division, though drug use isn't suspected as a factor in Adams' death. However, those results probably will not be available for "a few months," Coursey said.

twenty-six is far too young to have a heart attack.

my condolences to the family & the Bears organization.

[Lunatic]

twenty-six is far too young to have a heart attack.

my condolences to the family & the Bears organization.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

steroids cashes in another?  fuck man.  26?  RIP.

[elmizzy]

nah man he had an enlarged heart, RIP

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

nah man he had an enlarged heart, RIP

they are sometimes cause by steroid abuse.  wrestle reddie guerrero died because of this. 

[S P I C E]

nah man he had an enlarged heart, RIP

they are sometimes cause by steroid abuse.  wrestle reddie guerrero died because of this. 

That’s all speculation regarding this death doggy.  For now I will assume it was strictly an enlarged heart, until evidence comes out to prove the contrary.

[J.D. Wykid, Esq.]

nah man he had an enlarged heart, RIP

they are sometimes cause by steroid abuse.  wrestle reddie guerrero died because of this. 

That’s all speculation regarding this death doggy.  For now I will assume it was strictly an enlarged heart, until evidence comes out to prove the contrary.

of course.  thats why i put a question mark after it.

[Shallow]

A friend of mine died at 22 from an enlarged heart. It had gone undiagnosed since birth. He just died in his sleep one day; no drugs or anything like that. It happens. RIP Gaines Adams.

[Primo]

Yes it probably was just undiagnosed from birth. Not everyone gets chest xrays for no reason to detect it.  I know more than one person personally who has died from it. One in his sleep, one while playing ball, and one just collapsed.