Deion needs surgical treatment, but foot won’t be cut off

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN

  • Senior WriterJun 22, 2023, 04:01 PM ET Close College football press reporter.
  • Signed up with ESPN.com in 2008.
  • Graduate of Northwestern University.Colorado coach Deion Sanders will

  not require his left foot cut off at this time, although he’s set for a treatment Friday to ease embolisms in both of his legs.Sanders said in a video Thursday that there’s”no talk of amputation”for his left foot regardless of substantial blood flow concerns. The 55-year-old, set to start his first season at Colorado, just recently had a meeting with his medical group where cutting off the foot existed as a possible result. Sanders ‘conference with physicians aired as part of”Thee Pregame Show” on YouTube. Throughout the meeting, he said he had no feeling on the bottom of his foot. “The medical professionals were simply telling me, worst comes to worst, this was going to happen,”Sanders said in Thursday’s video

  .”However I believe in staying right so we never ever have to take that left.” Editor’s Picks 1 Related While training Jackson State in 2021, Jackson was hospitalized after issues from surgery to

repair a dislocated toe. He experienced embolism, missed out on three games and underwent numerous more surgical treatments, consisting of the elimination of two toes.Sanders stated Thursday that his doctors want to correct 2 of the remaining toes on his foot however can’t run until blood circulation is restored.

If Friday’s treatment is successful, Sanders might then have his toes repaired.The Pro Football Hall of Famer thanked those who have actually sent out prayers and great wishes. Sanders is set to coach his very first game at Colorado on Sept. 2 at TCU.

“You’ve got to comprehend: I ain’t going no place, due to the fact that we coming,”he said. “I’m just attempting to get all this straight, so when I walk that sideline and I talk

my talk, I can stroll my walk.”