Jairo Faverus, a redshirt junior linebacker from Amsterdam, officially announced Tuesday night on social media that he would be stepping away from football for the foreseeable future due to injury.
“Dear Family, Friends and Fans. I come to you with a heavy heart,” Faverus said in an Instagram post Tuesday. “After battling my 2nd major knee injury I have been advised to put the cleats down due to severe nature of this injury.”
Faverus was one of the players that West Virginia head coach Neal Brown noted would have been taking a medical redshirt this season. Brown also said that he was expecting that it was a career-ending injury.
“Great guy really was a heavy special teams contributor but just had several injuries that set him back,” Brown said of Faverus after this year’s first fall camp practice.
In his collegiate career with WVU, Faverus had nine total tackles, six assisted and one solo.
“My future remains unsure, but for now I have decided to step away from the game of football. Therefore I want to take a moment to show my gratitude to all that have supported me along this journey and those who believed in me,” Faverus continued in his Instagram. ” I cherish you all deeply and couldn’t have made it here without you. This experience has been nothing shy of everything that I could have dreamed to gain from the game of Football.”
Faverus ended the post by stating, “Once a mountaineer always a mountaineer,#33 .”
