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Colorado’s Deion Sanders dealing with ‘unspecified’ health issues at home in Texas

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders has been away from Boulder and at his home in Texas to address health issues, according to multiple reports.

ESPN reported the health issues are “unspecified,” but it was enough to keep him away from Colorado’s campus during the program’s annual summer football camps that began last week.

His eldest son, Deion Jr., said on a YouTube livestream on Sunday that Coach Prime’s timetable for returning to CU is unknown, but did mention his father is “feeling well.”

“He’ll tell y’all soon enough what he’s going through, what he went through,” Deion Jr. said, according to a report by USA Today. “When we get back to Boulder, I don’t know. I’m waiting until my dad leaves. When he leaves, then I’ll go. Until then, I’m going to sit here with him.”

Sanders recently canceled a speaking engagement scheduled for June 8 in Florida at the Sickle Cell Disease Research and Educational Symposium due to an “unavoidable last-minute scheduling change.” He was scheduled to be the keynote speaker of the symposium. 

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Coach Prime has been dealing with health issues since 2022 when he missed time during the season at Jackson State to deal with blood clots in his legs, which caused him to have two toes on his left foot amputated. Then, prior to his first season with the Buffaloes, he had another procedure to remove more blood clots that caused him to miss the 2023 Pac-12 media days in Las Vegas.

After spring practices wrapped up this year, Sanders appeared on the podcast of former NFL cornerback Asante Samuel and said he was dealing with a health issue but did not specify the nature of the health issue.

“He’s my brother, I love him to death,” Stephen A. Smith during Tuesday’s episode of ‘First Take’ on ESPN. “We just spoke two weeks ago for a lengthy period of time. He sounded absolutely, positively fine, but that doesn’t always provide the greatest indication of what somebody is going through.

“I know that he was really, really feeling down because of what his son, Shedeur, had experienced in the NFL draft. He’s had some health challenges, make no mistake about that, and sometimes you look at that and say, ‘That’s not gonna go away. It’s something he’ll be dealing with for the rest of his life.’

“But we’ve got a lot of love for him. We just pray for his full recovery, that he’s gonna be alright and know that (Sanders) got everybody. (He’s) got a whole bunch of people out here rooting for you and wishing you the greatest of health. Get well soon.”

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