The Boulder County Coroner’s Office says former University of Colorado Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
An autopsy indicated the cause of Salaam’s death was a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner’s office reported Thursday. He was 42 years old.
The manner of death is a suicide, the report says. Salaam’s body was found by a passerby at Eben G. Fine Park in Boulder on Dec. 5.
Salaam won the award given to college football’s best player as a junior and was selected in the first round of the 1995 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears.