Chris Mortensen announces he has cancer

ESPN’s football analyst Chris Mortensen has announced that he has been diagnosed with throat cancer.

The stage IV finding will force Mortensen to leave ESPN, temporarily we hope, to seek treatment. Mortensen released the information today and immediately the prayers and well wishes flew. A long time analyst for ESPN, Mortensen has been a pioneer in reporting on the NFL. With many inside sources around the league, Mortensen, though having missed on many, still gets a lot of his reports correct.

“More than a week ago, I was diagnosed with a Stage IV throat cancer,” Mortensen said in a statement Friday. “My focus shifted significantly to gathering information about the specifics of this cancer.…