Troy WR Chris Lewis announces he is cancer free after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma
College football got some of the best news a player could ever hear on Thursday evening. Troy wide receiver Chris Lewis announced that he is officially 100% cancer free. And finished with treatment. Lewis made the announcement on his Twitter page.
According to an article written by Pete Thamel of ESPN, Lewis spent 10-weeks in chemotherapy treatments. The purpose of the treatments was to decrease the chances of the cancer spreading and possibly even shrink the tumor. He received his chemotherapy at Children’s of Alabama in Birmingham, Alabama.
Lewis setup a GoFundMe in March of 2024 to help deal with his expenses. It has a picture of him hauling in a catch against Kansas State. He was trying to raise $150,000 to help with the expenses related to his cancer treatments. As of Thursday evening, he had received 287 donations totaling $21,553.
As a sophomore in 2023, Lewis finished the year ranked 16th in the nation with 10 touchdown catches. He led the country with 22.97 yards per catch. A number of those were SportsCenter Top 10 catches, including the No. 1 and No. 2 play of the night in his three-touchdown performance against the South Alabama Jaguars.
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Before transferring to Troy, Lewis played in four games with the Kentucky Wildcats in 2021, during his redshirt season. In 2022 with the Wildcats, he hauled in two catches for 22 yards and a touchdown, hauling in a 20-yard catch against South Carolina.
Lewis played his high school football for Pleasant Grove High School (Pleasant Grove, Alabama), where he was ranked as a three-star prospect and the No. 485 overall player in the nation in the 2021 cycle, according to the On3 Industry Rankings. He had a pretty dominant high school career. Lewis finished his senior season with 70 catches for 1,235 yards and 19 touchdowns in helping his team to finish 12-3 overall. He also averaged 17.6 yards per catch that year.
The Alabama native was an integral piece in guiding the Spartans to back-to-back Class 5A state title games in 2019 and 2020. He also led the Spartans with six catches for 111 yards and two touchdowns in the state title game in 2020.
The Troy Trojans currently sit at 0-3 on the 2024 campaign. They’ll look to rebound this week against the Florida A&M Rattlers. Kick time is slated for 7:00 PM EST and the game will be televised on ESPN+.