Former Michigan State star and Detroit Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers has died at age 38.
Rogers' former high school coaches told mlive.com that Rogers died from liver failure and that he also recently was diagnosed with cancer.
"I called his mom at the hospital over the weekend and got a chance to talk to Charles," Don Durrett, Rogers' former football coach at Saginaw High School, told mlive.com. "He said he was going to the Lord."
Neither Durrett nor Marshall Thomas, the former basketball coach and athletic director at Saginaw High, specified what type of cancer Rogers was diagnosed with.