With daughter facing complications, NFL player gets tattoo to honor her fight with cancer
Leah Still is coming up on the one-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis. Her dad updates us on her fight.
Josh Katzowitz
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Posted on Jun 2, 2015 Updated on May 28, 2021, 5:01 pm CDT
One of the most touching stories of the 2014 NFL season was that of Bengals defensive tackle Devon Still and the fight of his young daughter, Leah, against late-stage cancer.
Though Devon Still announced last week that Leah had hit a setback, it’s been almost a year since Leah was diagnosed with and began battling against the disease. To commemorate the anniversary, Still did this.
Photo via Devon Still/Instagram
*First Published: Jun 2, 2015, 12:54 am CDT
Josh Katzowitz is a staff writer at the Daily Dot specializing in YouTube and boxing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. A longtime sports writer, he's covered the NFL for CBSSports.com and boxing for Forbes. His work has been noted twice in the Best American Sports Writing book series.