Colt Brennan, record setting quarterback of the U of Hawai'i, has died. He was 37.

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His father, Terry Brennan, told ESPN that his son died early Tuesday morning at a hospital in Newport Beach, California. The day before, paramedics were called to a hotel room where Colt Brennan had been with other people. Terry Brennan said his son had ingested something laced with fentanyl and never regained consciousness. Only hours earlier, Colt Brennan had tried to enter a detox program at an area hospital, but he was turned away because there were no beds available.

Colt Brennan's run of success from 2005 to 2007 helped put Hawai'i football on the map. He passed for more than 4,000 yards three times, including for 5,549 in 2006. That season, he set the single-season record for touchdown passes with 58. The record was surpassed by Joe Burrow during the 2019 season. Brennan is fourth all-time in career touchdown passes with 131. Brennan finished sixth in Heisman voting in 2006 and third in 2007. The 2007 team finished the regular season 12-0 and 10th in the Associated Press poll before losing to Georgia in the Sugar Bowl.

After his time at Hawai'i, Brennan was taken in the sixth round of the 2008 draft by Washington, but injuries prevented him from playing his rookie year, and he was released. He never played in the NFL. A 2010 car accident left Brennan with a traumatic brain injury, and that made it difficult to continue his football career. He tried to catch on in the USFL, Canadian Football League and Arena Football League but didn't stick.

Terry Brennan said his son was never the same after the car accident, which left him with the head injury, broken ribs and a broken collarbone. Brennan had a series of legal troubles in recent years, including arrests for driving under the influence. In 2020, he was arrested at a hotel for causing a disturbance while intoxicated. A few months later, he was arrested at his own home in Hawai'i for another disturbance during which police said he was "extremely intoxicated."

"It seemed to have an effect on him to where he just found himself going from one bad spot to another bad spot," Terry Brennan said. "I don't know how else to say it. You make decisions and sometimes they're the right decisions, and sometimes they're the wrong decisions."

https://www.espn.in/college-football/story/_/id/31427087/ex-hawaii-record-setting-qb-colt-brennan-dead-37?platform=amp

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1. part 2

‘They Did Everything, But Nothing Could Ever Save Him’

The excruciating struggle to break Colt Brennan’s endless cycle of addiction: drinking and drugs, arrests and alienations, apologies and promises. Repeat.

Twenty-two million Americans have active substance abuse disorders. Only 10% get help. And of that group, only 10% stay sober after finishing a treatment program. While that’s a lot of people getting sober, there are tens of millions more who remain addicted. In 2020, the number of U.S. deaths by drug overdose hit an all-time high: 93,331.

https://www.si.com/college/2021/11/01/colt-brennan-fentanyl-death-addiction-daily-cover

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2. This story is from May, 2021. Why post it again?

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3. I believed it worth sharing.

And this is in the ‘Sports’ (football) section,
not the 'Late Breaking News forum'.