The Peoria Centennial High School community is grieving the loss of a 16-year-old student and football player at the school.

“Being a football player, being a tough guy, you don’t really talk about head injuries,” Nolan said ... football since I was a 7-year-old kid. They put some things into perspective ...

We had a really good player ... and Nolan came in two days later. It was a crazy turn of events.” James’ yards ranked fourth in the state and second in the Super Football Conference behind ...