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Bull Rider Dies From Injuries at Texas Rodeo



By Paul Harris, Apr 4, 2025

WHARTON, TX — Wyoming bull rider Dylan Grant was killed Thursday night when he was stepped on at the Wharton County Youth Fair Xtreme Bulls event. ... According to reports, Grant was life-flighted to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, where he was pronounced dead.

Grant, 24, had just debuted on the pro rodeo circuit last year. ... He was a state champion at Jackson Hole High School in Wyoming, and he went on to compete at the University of Wyoming.

Grant had already finished in the money twice this year, including a fifth-place showing at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, where he scored an 83.5.

Wyoming Pro Rodeo Cowboy Dies In Bull Riding Event In Texas
A pro rodeo bull rider from Pavillion, Wyoming, died Thursday night when a bull stepped on him during an event in Texas. Friends and family of Dylan Grant say they’re shocked and saddened by the news.

Clair McFarland
April 04, 2025
3 min read


Dylan Grant in his University of Wyoming rodeo vest. Grant died Thursday, April 3, 2025, when a bull stepped on him during an event in Wharton County, Texas. (Kendra Santos, By the Cowboys For the Cowboys via Facebook)

A Wyoming man and University of Wyoming alumnus died Thursday night during a professional bullriding event in Texas, after a bull stepped on him, witnesses say. ... About 2,500 people witnessed the fatal incident at the Wharton County Youth Fair’s PRCA Xtreme Bulls event, according to event announcer Robert Blue Jeanes.

Dylan Grant of Pavillion, Wyoming, was the last rider of the night in the professional bull riding event. The bull bucked Grant off, Jeanes said it looked to him as though Grant’s hand got stuck in the rope. ... The cowboy whipped underneath the bull, and the bull stepped on his neck, he said.

It’s often problematic for paramedics to rush the arena with the bull still raging, but Grant stood and ran to the corner to meet the paramedics himself, and they immediately put him in an ambulance and took him to a hospital, where he died, Jeanes said. ... “They were Johnny on the spot,” said Jeanes.

Grant’s run and paramedics’ swift response had Jeanes hopeful that the young man would survive, he said. ... “We’re just upset,” said Jeanes in a Friday phone interview. “Sad and heartbroke for the kid and the family. For everybody that was there, it was just terrible.”


Kendra Santos of rodeo media outlet By the Cowboys For the Cowboys shared this photo from Becenti Photography on Facebook, saying it was a bull ride Dylan Grant was proud of. Grant died Thursday, April 3, 2025, when a bull stepped on him during an event in Wharton County, Texas. (Kendra Santos, By the Cowboys For the Cowboys via Facebook)

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Clair McFarland
Crime and Courts Reporter