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AUBURN – While strolling from the Auburn athletics facility, Auburn signee Tashawn Manning had the smile of a individual that merely received a cancer-free diagnosis.
First, the three-star defensive line prospect was provided the cancer free news by his doctors after finishing his last chemotherapy treatment in Florida. Manning was diagnosed about Thanksgiving along with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and without delay started treatments that included day-to-day hospital visits. APL is a rare distortion of the bone marrow, which just occurs in 5-10 percent of leukemia cases, in which there is a deficiency of mature blood cells in the body.
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Manning came spine to Auburn for a visit while several freshmen and junior college recruiting targets were visiting along with coaches throughout just what the Auburn staff called a “family barbecue” this weekend.
Beyond the obvious excitement regarding his overall healthiness improving, he said Saturday that he’ll be attending Valencia Community College in Orlando this fall prior to enrolling at Auburn in January. Manning said he’s already taken two classes this summer at Valencia and will certainly take two A lot more this fall prior to arriving at Auburn.
“It was a giant relief learning I don’t have actually this weight on my shoulders, and I can easily concentrate on others points love football and school,” Manning said regarding his cancer-free diagnosis on July 21. “I have actually a examine up every month then after a year, it’s every three months.”
Manning said the chemotherapy treatments took regarding “40 pounds” off his 260-pound frame however reiterated Saturday that he’s being able to job out and position weight spine on in the latter points of his treatment.
Manning, a Class 8A first-group all-state selection from Apopka, Fla., continued to continue to be in contact along with Auburn coaches including Tigers head coach Gus Malzahn and offensive line coach Herb Hand throughout his treatments. Manning said Saturday he felt love his visit to the Auburn campus this weekend break was “coming spine house again” once he ate along with coaches and current Auburn players.
“He’s a guy we’re fairly excited regarding in the future,” Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn saidon National Signing Day last February. “I actually feel love it’ll be a Shon Coleman story every one of over again. He’s got a terrific attitude, and we really believe he’ll be along with us in a short period of time.”
Manning said he spoke to Coleman, that battled through a leukemia diagnosis also to come to be an All-SEC offensive lineman and a third-round decide on by the Cleveland Browns in the 2016 NFL draft, a couple of times because his diagnosis.
“It’s fairly inspiring learning that someone went through the exact same thing I went through, and that I could follow straight in his footsteps and maybe do better,” Manning said.
Once he enrolls in January, Manning won’t have the ability to be cleared for football tasks until Auburn’s group doctors and his personal oncologists the two figure out he’s all set for bodily contact.
“The original timeline (to return to football) was three years then throughout treatments, it got shortened down to nine months,” Manning said. “It was a setback, and now I have actually to job on my own to grab spine to where I was before.”
Malzahn and the rest of the Auburn staff have actually stressed publicly that Manning’s scholarship will certainly be honored no matter exactly how long it takes him or her to be cleared to return to the football field.
“After he signed his papers, I said, ‘just what are you going to do to celebrate?’ and he went to go grab chemo,” Malzahn said on signing day. “He’s got a terrific attitude, and we really believe he’ll be along with us in a short period of time.”
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