One of the central figures in Iowa football's most recent run of success is dead. He was 27.
Tyler Sash died sometime Sunday or Monday. He was just 27 years old. According to reports, a family member found Sash while coming to his house to take his dog for a walk. An autopsy is being performed Wednesday to determine what caused it, but for those who had watched him over the last decade, it is sort of irrelevant. As Mike Hlas wrote Tuesday, "Whatever it was, it wasn't good and nothing can undo it now."
Sash came to Iowa City from Oskaloosa, where he had been a multiple-sport star; not only did he receive scholarship offers from Iowa and Iowa State to play football, but a handful of low-major basketball programs wanted him as a guard.