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Updated December 16, 2025.
In a follow up Instagram Live announcement on December 13, West Virginia native and Pro Football Hall of Fame member Randy Moss said he recently underwent a six hour surgery for cancer. Moss said he was in a Charlotte hospital for six days where a stint was put in his liver so surgeons could remove a cancer between his pancreas and liver. Moss said he is a cancer survivor who is now in recovery and undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
In the Instagram post, the former DuPont football and basketball star and Marshall University standout made a plea “for people to get blood tests, not just males but females too, and especially black men.” Moss thanked the many people wo supported and prayed for him, and said he is anxious to get back to his job as an analyst on ESPN’s “Sunday NFL Countdown’ show.
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Posting on Instagram Sunday morning, Randy Moss, the 47-year-old from Rand, West Virginia, asked for prayers as he battles an undisclosed illness.
The sports broadcast analyst and host sent the posts from the set of ESPN’s NFL Countdown show. Moss said he’s keeping details private, while saying he has a great team of doctors in his medical battle and is asking for the blessings of prayer warriors.
“I’m battling something and it’s something internal and your boy is going to get through it,” Moss said in his post. “I got a great team of doctors and a great team around me.”
Moss explained the illness is why he’s been wearing sunglasses on the ESPN set.
The former DuPont HIgh School All-State football and basketball standout also had a message for all men.
“All you men get your check-ups and get your blood work done.” Moss said. “Throughout the week of the holidays, your boy has been battling some internal. I just ask for all the prayer warriors to put their blessing hands on me and my family through these hard times.”
Moss was an All-American wide receiver for Marshall University in 1996 and 1997. The Minnesota Vikings and New Englands Patriots star was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.
