Overview
- Sanders has remained at his Texas home for weeks as he addresses an unspecified health issue that forced him to miss Colorado’s summer football camps.
- On Wednesday he posted on X that he feels “truly blessed” and that “everything is OKAY,” with a full update promised once he’s back on campus.
- His eldest son, Deion Sanders Jr., said in a recent YouTube livestream that his father is “feeling well” but did not set a timetable for his return to Boulder.
- Colorado athletic trainer Lauren Askevold has been by Sanders’s side in Texas, leveraging her experience treating his previous blood clot complications.
- Sanders’s health struggles date to 2021 with two toe amputations and multiple leg procedures, and his contract requires him to run at least three on-campus camps each summer, which he has missed this year.