Former Belleville, Michigan football DB Andre Seldon Jr. dies at age 22

Former Belleville High School football star and Michigan football defensive back Andre Seldon Jr. died at age 22 after drowning near a Utah dam on Saturday.

Officials with the Cache County Sheriff’s Office initially announced a search and rescue mission would take place around 2:20 p.m. Saturday after “a young adult male dove into the water from the cliffs and did not resurface.”

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Early Sunday morning, the sheriff’s office confirmed that the Utah Department of Public Safety’s dive team had found the man, later identified as Seldon, underwater in the Porcupine Reservoir.

Seldon began his career playing for Michigan football, enrolling in Ann Arbor in January 2020. He played two seasons with the Wolverines, one in 2021 and one in 2022, before transferring to New Mexico State for the next two seasons and ultimately transferring to Utah State this past offseason.

The Utah State football program confirmed Seldon’s death Sunday morning. The team said it was mourning the loss of its student-athlete.

According to the Cache County Sheriff’s Office, the initial investigation “leads to the conclusion that this is a tragic accident as multiple witnesses provided similar information.”