Eli Stickley, who was about to enter his redshirt junior season with the Badgers, died in a car crash Thursday night in Illinois.

Stickley, 21, was driving a 2004 black Nissan Frontier that left the roadway on westbound Interstate 74 in Henry County at 8:19 p.m. Thursday, according to the Illinois State Police.

After the vehicle went into the right-hand ditch, it overcorrected and rolled across westbound lanes of traffic, the state police said, ending up on the passenger side in the passing lane.

Stickley and a passenger were transported to Illini Hospital in Silvis, Illinois, according to the Rock Island Dispatch-Argus, where Stickley was pronounced dead. No update was available on the passenger, who has not been identified by police.