A 17-year-old school football player who dreamed of turning pro has died in New Orleans after testing positive for coronavirus, officials confirmed this week.

Jaquan Anderson died Sunday, the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office confirmed to the New Orleans Advocate, with the cause of death still under investigation.

His death proves that “everyone is at risk” from the pandemic, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday as his state was eyed as a potential new hotspot for the virus.

“Nobody should assume this disease will not severely impact them or have the potential to kill them,” he said, according to the report.

Anderson’s death was the first of a teen in Louisiana but at least the second in the US, with officials in California having revealed Tuesday that a 17-year-old boy had died in a “complex” coronavirus case.

The high school football player’s father, Kevin Moran, insisted to the Advocate that the exact cause of death was still unclear.

“It was heart failure,” Moran said, adding, “People don’t want to let you heal … I’m so upset.”

He admitted his son had “not been ill” in the days leading up to his death before he became unresponsive and was taken to a hospital, where he died Sunday, the Advocate said. It was not clear from the report when the teen had been tested for the killer bug.

“He was a fun-loving kid,” Moran told the paper. “All he wanted to do was help his mom and dad — get to the NFL and take care of us,” he said of his son’s dream life as a pro player.

Orleans Parish School Board Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. issued a statement Thursday saying “the loss of one of our students is utterly devastating and is felt deeply” by the entire district.

“It’s so important for us to navigate through this time and cherish those we have in our lives,” Lewis said, according to the Advocate.

Louisiana has surpassed 2,300 people known to be infected, with 86 residents dead from the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus, according to the state health department.

Many fear the mass of people who flocked to Mardi Gras in the last week of February exacerbated the problem.

“Unfortunately, people weren’t only catching beads who were here for Mardi Gras — they were catching coronavirus,” Dr. Rebekah Gee told NBC’s “Today” show Friday.

With Post wires