Broadcast reveals Nate Solder's son's cancer has returned
New England Patriots left tackle Nate Solder may have more important things on his mind than football this season.
NBC's Michelle Tafoya revealed on Sunday night's broadcast that Solder's son restarted chemotherapy treatments a few weeks ago to treat kidney cancer.
Solder and his wife announced their son Hudson was diagnosed with bilateral kidney tumors in 2015 when the infant was just three years old. Solder was happy to pass along that his son was going strong before Super Bowl LI, but things changed in the following nine months.
"When my son was diagnosed, it didn’t matter how many trophies I had won. It didn’t matter how much money I had," Solder told Cameron Wolfe of the Denver Post last January. "His health was the most important thing. So that’s taught me a lot of lessons about life. We’re so fortunate to play this game and I’ll never take it for granted."
The 29-year-old survived testicular cancer himself in 2014.