The Brooke County Sheriff''s Department confirms that the body of Bethany College student and Freshman football player, Channing Benson, 19, of Spencer, West Virginia, was found in his dorm room just after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Benson was a communicatons major.

Investigators tell 7News, family members of the young man called college security to check on his whereabouts.

That is when security discovered the young man dead. Authorities want to stress, foul play is not suspected.

Grief counselors were brought onto campus, as word of Benson''s death spread quickly.

The young man''s body has been sent to Morgantown for an autopsy.