Penn State running back Journey Brown is medically retiring from football after being diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
James Franklin announced the news Wednesday night that the redshirt junior would no longer be able to play. Brown had been held out of the season as Penn State announced in October there was a medical condition discovered in the offseason.
According to WebMD, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy "is associated with thickening of the heart muscle ... which leads to stiffening of the walls of the heart and abnormal aortic and mitral heart valve function, both of which may impede normal blood flow out of the heart.