A student-athlete who committed to the University of Pittsburgh's football program died on Saturday in a car crash in the state of Indiana. He was identified as Mason Alexander. Alexander was the passenger in a car that attempted to pass another vehicle just before the top of a hill when another vehicle came the opposite way and struck the car that Alexander was in.

A freshman cornerback for Pittsburgh’s football team is dead after a car crash in Indiana, the team announced. Mason Alexander died in Fishers on Saturday night. He was 18.

Mason Alexander, a freshman cornerback for Pittsburgh, died Saturday night in a car accident in Fishers, Ind. He was 18. "In loving memory of a cherished son, friend and teammate," the Panthers football program wrote on its social media,