Former Louisiana State University football player Devonta Lee has died after a years-long battle with cancer, his mother, Lacresia Brown, confirmed to local Arkansas TV station KTVE on Thursday, February 26. He was 26. Lee played three seasons at LSU from 2019 to 2021, winning a national championship with the Tigers as a true freshman. He later transferred to Louisiana Tech University for the final two seasons of his college career. "He was a fighter and he loved everybody," Brown told KTVE. "[Devonta] was a good kid [and would] do anything for anybody.