Moment Colorado college football star tells teammates his heartbreaking health news

Deion Sanders stood adjacent to 1 of his protect players, Nikhil Webb Walker, and watched arsenic nan sophomore delivered nan gut-wrenching news of his lymphoma test to his teammates.  

Walker explained he recovered retired astir having a type of humor cancer nan time earlier he told his teammates. 

The 6-foot-6, 275-pound protect lineman will besides person to do 'a batch of chemo' to get into remission. 

The metallic lining is that his shape of lymphoma is 'very treatable' and personification astatine his property and beingness style is successful a bully position to make a afloat recovery. 

'I've tried to support it nether wraps because I don't want to beryllium a distraction to nan team,' Walker said. 'I want to spot y'all boys do what y'all do and conscionable support winning.'

Sanders past explained to Walker really he was a weighted personnel of his squad nary matter really overmuch shot he played. 

'First of all, you're ne'er a distraction. You're a blessing, and you let america to understand what life really is,' Sanders said. 'We play nan assemblage crippled we telephone shot that we tin make millions of dollars on.'

'And we springiness group satisfaction, we springiness them ups and downs, we springiness them immoderate benignant of emotion. But what you're dealing pinch is real. And nan measurement you dealt pinch it has been conscionable admirable. We emotion you, we admit you, we're present for you. Understand that we emotion you and there's ever a spot for you here.'

Walker has played successful 3 games this season, pinch nan latest September 28 against Central Florida. 

Before transferring to Colorado, Walker played for 2 years astatine New Mexico State. 

Due to nan quality of his condition, Walker will apt request to beryllium successful remission to proceed playing football. However, that appeared to beryllium nan furthest point from Sanders' mind.