Cowboys Legend Deion Sanders May Need Foot Amputated

Dallas Cowboys and NFL legend Deion Sanders may have to get his left foot amputated as he continues to suffer from blood flow problems.

FRISCO - Dallas Cowboys and NFL legend Deion Sanders may have to get his left foot amputated as he continues to suffer from blood flow problems in the area, according to doctors with the Colorado football team.

Sanders, the new football coach of the University of Colorado Buffaloes, has long been dealing with issues with this foot. He has already undergone surgical procedures that including having to have his big toe and his second toe amputated because of blood clots that run down his leg, from the top of his calf to his foot.

“You just have to understand what the risks are,” vascular surgeon Donald Jacobs told Sanders during an interview. “Things can cascade.”

Jacobs also informed the Colorado athletic training staff that Sanders, 55, "could lose the foot.”

During parts of Sanders’ brilliant NFL career, which landed him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he dealt with foot and toe issues. Considered the greatest cornerback of all-time, and a Super Bowl champion in Dallas, he went into coaching a few years ago, first at Jackson State and now in Boulder, all along routinely dealing with pain while often moving about on a scooter.

Sanders actually missed three games during the 2021 season with Jackson State due to medical problems with the foot.

Sanders played 14 years in the NFL vet and then moved into media before his successful jump into coaching (with no desire to move up to the NFL, as he explains here in an exclusive interview with CowboysSI.com.) Sanders went 27-6 in his three years at Jackson State in part due to an ability to recruit big-name players. He continues to make a push to publicize HBCU athletes, recently chastising pro football teams for failing to give kids enough attention in the NFL Draft. And as he makes the jump to Colorado (which went 1-11 last year), he's planning on winning ... but only after the possible surgery.

“I want to do it this summer, because when we get rolling, I’m not going to have time to do it,” Sanders told his doctors. “This is the best down time I have.”

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