Overview

• Coach Prime is resting at his Texas estate with an unspecified health issue; his son says he is “feeling well” but has not provided a timeline for his return to Boulder.
• He has lost about 14 pounds and called his condition “at a whole nother level” during a late-May podcast appearance.
• Sanders missed Colorado’s annual summer football camps for the first time since 2023 and canceled a planned keynote at the Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research symposium.
• CU athletic trainer Lauren Askevold has accompanied him in Texas, continuing her work on his ongoing leg-related care from previous blood clot surgeries.
• Colorado opens its 2025 season at home against Georgia Tech on Aug. 29, creating uncertainty about Sanders’ availability for fall preparations.