Gators football player Zach Brown is critically ill at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston following an accidental paraquat exposure, according to a post from the Magnolia Shine Podcast.
Brown is on ECMO and is being evaluated for a possible lung transplant. His family remains with him, hundreds of miles from home, the post said.
The post also offered prayers for Brown and the Lake Cormorant community.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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