Looking good and living lovely: Deion Sanders reenters spotlight focused on leading revamped Colorado team

FRISCO, Texas – Many mysteries surrounded the health of Deion Sanders, where the Colorado head coach is and the daily participation of head coach. However, a constant remains: whenever the coach appears, the cameras generally follow.

Sanders, 57, appeared at the long -awaited on Wednesday at the Big 12 Media Days, ending an absence of several months from the spotlight when he deals with an unrecognized health problem. Rightly so, it was the main act, the 14th of the 14 head coaches to address journalists during the two-day event, and it did not take long to locate it when he arrived at the star, flanked by the former Cowboys teammate in Dallas, Michael Irvin, the director of athletics Rick George and his creative media team.

“I’m not here to talk about my health,” Sanders told journalists. “I’m here to talk about my team.”

He added: “I seem good, I live adorable. God really blessed me. Not a care in the world, not a lack or a desire in the world.”

Deion Sanders at 2025 Big 12 Media Days: unpack the best and the worst of the polarizing coach of Colorado

Carter Bahns

The Colorado coach revealed in May that he was facing an unrecognized health problem and said that he had lost 14 pounds. He did not offer more clarity during the Big 12 event. What was clear was that Wednesday was a meeting with his players. Quarter Kaidon Salter said it was the first time he saw Sanders in person since the Buffaloes spring match on April 19.

“It’s incredible,” said Salter to CBS Sports. “After all that he experienced, seeing him again is really an honor, but we want him to always take his time and come back stronger than before, so that he can lead us to victory.”

Sanders, who did not attend the wedding of the winner of the Heisman trophy, Travis Hunter, in May, said that he would return to Boulder, Colorado, in time for the pre-season camp, which should start later this month.

“He is fine,” George told CBS Sports. “I have already seen him in summer, so he’s going very well. He’s gone and short.”

Sanders spent most of this summer in his Ranch in Canton, Texas, appearing a few times on the camera on his son, the YouTube channel of Deion Jr.

Sanders was his usual and charismatic self during the brief appearance at the star, the Cowboys practice center in Dallas. He finished some interviews with the media, spending less than 90 minutes at the event before leaving the place. For some of these minutes, he conversed with Colorado players, sharing fun moments and laughs with the offensive line player Jordan Seaton and the quarters who will soon fight for the starting work of the Buffs – Salter and the recruit of Blue Chip Julian Lewis – while he was standing at the 50 Yard line, just a few long stids of the Dallas Cowboys Cowboys which has long been synonymous with the pro football room.

Seaton, a potential choice of draft NFL in the first round in two years, has put on a pair of unpublished Nike sneakers from Sanders. Sanders asked with playful in Seaton how he had cut a pair, which made the teammates laugh.

“He shows me a little love,” said Seaton to CBS Sports. “Sometimes he acts as he didn’t know, but …”

Seaton leans towards the journalist and made his best impression of Don Corleone from “The Godfather”.

“I am part of the family.”

The absence of Sanders to Boulder is noticeable. Seaton said he is often talking to Sanders, mainly by FaceTime. For their last conversation, Sanders sat in front of his grandson’s playground, which the coach calls “Snow’s Playground”.

“He is an energy donor,” said Seaton. “… if he is not there, you notice, but we have not missed a beat.”

First -year coach Andreu Swasey, who spent 15 years with Miami’s Hurricanes, led out -season training sessions in Boulder while Sanders focuses on his health.

“It was really the foundation of our membership and believing in its training plan,” said Seaton. “We are not running 20 100 and we raise without reason. He tells us why we are going to do and why we have to do it.”

On Wednesday, Sanders spoke as a coach wishing to find his team – and to meet the new players who have registered in lessons this summer. He thanked the Big 12 coaches for holding his hand to check it. He congratulated Commissioner Brett Yormmark as the best in the country. He spoke to the friend Joey McGuire, the chief coach of Texas Tech, who could have the most expensive list in the country thanks to the major boxes of the program. “Can you send us some of these dollars so that we can also get some of these players?”

He also called for a salary ceiling in university football and chastised players who do not wear knee pads and put on short football pants over their knees. “There should be a fine implemented for this kind of thing. Let’s have some respect for this great game.”

He also referred to his new series of receivers, which will replace Hunter and Lajohntay Wester, as “incredible”. As for this quarter battle to replace his son and the disk holder of Colorado Shedeur Sanders?

“Kaidon is incredible, Kaidon is out of the chain,” said Sanders about Salter, a Liberty transfer. “He was there.

Salter and Lewis are good friends who first met in a camp Elite 11 over a year ago. Salter was an advisor, Lewis a high school player increased. They look forward to the pre-season camp, when they will finally compete in front of their head coach.

“He took his time,” said Salter, “and doing everything he has to do before we can come back and train his full capacity.”