The Auburn athletic family is mourning the loss Monday of football team chaplain Chette Williams, who drowned Sunday at Lake Martin.

The Rev. Chette Williams, a former Auburn linebacker who served as the Tigers' chaplain over the last three decades, died after falling off a boat in Lake Martin in Alexander City, Ala., police said Monday.

The longtime pastor of the Auburn University football team died Sunday after falling into the water on Lake Martin in central Alabama.

Chette Williams, the Auburn University football’s team chaplain for 26 seasons, died Sunday in a drowning on Lake Martin, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Williams, who resided in Dadeville,