In a public report released Tuesday by the Pickens County Coroner’s Office, former Clemson running back C.J. Fuller died on Oct. 3 due to complications related to a blood clot and deep vein thrombosis.
As first reported by The Greenville News and The Charleston Post and Courier, the former Tiger officially died of pulmonary thromboembolism and deep vein thrombosis. Pulmonary thromboembolism, according to the Mayo Clinic.org, is a blockage in one of the pulmonary arteries in your lungs. In most cases, pulmonary embolism is caused by blood clots that travel to the lungs from the legs or, rarely, other parts of the body (deep vein thrombosis).