Oregon's Jeff Maehl Plays With Fallen Teammate Todd Doxey on His Mind

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Oregon wide receiver Jeff Maehl has two tattoos stretching across his forearms from wrist to elbow.

One is the name of his hometown, Paradise, California. The other a memorial to former teammate Todd Doxey.

Maehl was with Doxey (right) on the McKenzie River on July 13, 2008 -- along with a large group of Oregon athletes -- when Doxey jumped approximately 20 feet off a bridge, got caught in the river current and drowned.

He was pulled from the water by a fisherman, his friends too far down the river in their inner tubes to get back to him. He died hours later at the hospital.

Doxey was 19 at the time of his death.

"It was one of the hardest days of many of our lives, especially the guys that were there and saw what happened," Maehl said Friday.

Doxey, a redshirt freshman defensive back, was Maehl's close friend and roommate. They came in as part of the same recruiting class in 2007. They'd been living together two weeks when Doxey died.

 

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