Tragic news ... former Baltimore Ravens running back Lorenzo Taliaferro died on Wednesday, cops in Virginia confirmed.
He was just 28 years old.
The York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office in Yorktown, Va. announced it received a call of someone needing medical attention at around 3:07 PM on Wednesday.
Cops say when officers arrived, they found Taliaferro and immediately helped emergency personnel transfer him to a local hospital.
Sadly, police say he died at the facility a short time later.
Cops did not release a cause of death ... but a family member told Fox45 in Baltimore that Taliaferro had suffered a heart attack.