Jovan Dewitt was sitting alone in a Lincoln hospital room in late January when he got the prognosis nobody wants to hear.
Doctors thought initially he had an infected salivary gland, but antibiotics didn’t do the trick. A lump on his neck hadn’t subsided and had even grown a bit weeks after he first noticed it. He had been on the road recruiting in January with defensive coordinator Erik Chinander, but decided to head to the doctor again.
His wife didn’t come along because it seemed like just another appointment to figure out what was going on.