By Deion Sanders’ left foot may need to be amputated since the region is still having serious blood flow issues.
Sanders, who has already had two of his left foot’s toes removed, consented to a video crew filming a consultation with his medical staff at the Colorado football facility where they talked about their worries for his health.
“You just have to understand what the risks are,” vascular surgeon Donald Jacobs told Sanders. “Things can cascade.”
Lauren Askevold, a Colorado sports trainer, was informed by Jacobs that “He could lose the foot.”
Sanders was informed by Max Wohlauer, a different vascular surgeon, that his lower leg’s blood pressure, which was formerly equal to that of his arm, is now only around two-thirds that of his arm.
Wohlauer stated, “So those arteries have shut down.”
Sanders is about to begin his first campaign as Colorado’s head coach. He said he would prefer to have significant medical surgery done now rather than have to miss the start of the season while recovering.
“I want to do it this summer because when we get rolling, I’m not going to have time to do it,” Sanders told the doctors. “This is the best downtime I have.”
Due to difficulties from a prior foot operation, the 55-year-old Sanders, who was the head coach of Jackson State, was forced to miss three games in the 2021 season.
In his Pro Football Hall of Fame career, Sanders played cornerback at Florida State and was a college football Hall of Fame, cornerback. He also played in Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas, Washington, and Baltimore. Before departing for Colorado in December, he won the Southwestern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year award at Jackson State each of the previous two years.
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