In the weeks and months following the end of the Oregon Ducks 2021 football season, some questions regarding the whereabouts of wide receiver Jaylon Redd started to arise.
Though his final year of eligibility was cut short due to a season-ending injury in November, Redd was not around for Oregon’s bowl game vs. Oklahoma, and he was notably absent from the pre-draft process that was taking place in Eugene, with the Pro Day leading up to the big event in April.
On Tuesday, Redd finally opened up about what has been going on in his life over the past few months.
“There’s so many questions going on right now, and I just feel like I would like to tell my story,” Redd said in a YouTube video titled ‘The Jaylon Redd Story.’
According to Redd, a 5-year player for the Ducks, he was diagnosed with a cancerous neuroendocrine tumor on his pancreas back in December and had surgery to remove the tumor at the end of January.
“In December, that’s kind of when I had my first mishaps,” Redd said in the video. “I remember just eating a lot of food one night and thinking it was a regular stomach hurting from being full, or I might have food poisoning.”
The process started a couple of days after the Pac-12 Championship game against the Utah Utes, which took place on December 3. Redd describes a pain that he felt in his stomach that he initially thought was due to over-eating, or maybe food poisoning. After going to the hospital to receive fluids, the doctors wanted to run some additional tests.
On Friday, December 21, Redd was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
“I just had to overcome it and control what I could control at the end of the day.”
Things happened rather quickly over the next month, with Redd undergoing surgery to remove the tumor on January 31st.
“It was a real simple procedure. None of the cancer spread throughout my blood or anything like that. It was just a head-on procedure, cut it out and we’re good.”
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