Former NFL star Mike Williams’s death was a result of bacterial sepsis from poor dental health, according to a report released by the Medical Examiner’s Office in Hillsborough County, Florida, on Thursday.
The former wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was taken off life support on Sept. 12 and died at the age of 36 after suffering a head injury during a construction accident in Aug. The injury led to acute hypoxic respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, and multiple brain abscesses.
In Williams’s case, oral bacteria due to poor dental hygiene was the cause of the sepsis infection, according to the information shared by the medical examiner.