Sanders Dismisses Health Questions At Big 12 Media Day: 'i’m Here To Talk About My Team'

Colorado Buffaloes caput coach Deion Sanders wants to attraction connected his adjacent play pinch his squad — not his wellness issues.

Unfortunately for him, it was a large mobility heading into Big 12 media time connected Wednesday, arsenic Sanders missed portion of nan outpouring and early summertime pinch nan Buffaloes owed to an unspecified wellness issue. 

Sanders didn’t divulge what he was dealing with, but he said he is "already back" to normal and will return to Boulder soon to hole for nan caller year. 

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Colorado caput coach Deion Sanders speaks pinch nan media during 2025 Big 12 Football Media Days astatine The Star. (Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images)

"I’m present today," he said, per ESPN. "I'm handling my responsibilities. So, I look guardant to it. I can't wait. You've sewage to understand, immoderate of nan young [players] I haven't moreover met yet. I'm truthful excited astir that."

Sanders has dealt pinch humor clots successful his legs successful nan past. He besides had 2 toes connected his near ft amputated successful 2021, which has been good documented while he was coaching astatine Jackson State. He had to miss 3 games while being hospitalized astatine nan time. 

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But Sanders, alongside erstwhile Dallas Cowboys teammate Michael Irvin and more, was fresh to reply each things Colorado connected Wednesday, imploring he is each good. 

"I’m not present to talk astir my health. I’m present to talk astir my team," he said. 

"I’m looking good. I’m surviving lovely. God has genuinely blessed me. Not a attraction successful nan world, not a want aliases desire successful nan world."

Houston caput coach Willie Fritz shakes nan manus of Colorado caput coach Deion Sanders connected shape while Arizona caput coach Brent Brennan looks connected during 2025 Big 12 Football Media Days astatine The Star. (Raymond Carlin III/Imagn Images)

Sanders agreed to a five-year hold worthy $54 cardinal to stay caput coach of nan Buffaloes. 

With his boy Shedeur Sanders preparing for his rookie play pinch nan Cleveland Browns, "Coach Prime" will beryllium focused connected choosing nan correct man to beryllium his successor nether center. 

Kaidon Salter, a transportation from Liberty, will beryllium going up against Julian "Ju Ju" Lewis for nan starting domiciled astatine quarterback. They were some coming astatine Big 12 media day, pinch Salter saying it’s been "less contact" pinch Sanders, but wellness is simply a privilege for coaches arsenic overmuch arsenic players. 

Colorado caput coach Deion Sanders speaks pinch nan media during 2025 Big 12 Football Media Days astatine The Star. (Raymond Carlin III/Imagn Images)

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"We want him to return his clip and travel backmost erstwhile he’s fresh to truthful he tin coach america afloat healthy," Salter said, per ESPN. 

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