It's a big day for Steelers running back James Conner.
Saturday, May 23, Conner, 25, sent the following tweet, celebrating four years free of cancer:
Conner's cancer diagnosis came back in 2015 in a simultaneously unfortunate and fortunate series of events. As an All-ACC runner at Pitt, Conner looked primed for a huge 2015 campaign, but he tore his MCL in the team's season opener against Youngstown State. While rehabbing from that injury, Conner suffered additional, unrelated complications, and doctors diagnosed him with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
“The doctor told me I had a week left,” Conner said during a mid-July episode of the You Know What I Mean?