Former NFL linebacker and Detroit Lions general manager Matt Millen is under hospital care in New Jersey awaiting a heart transplant and needs one "fairly soon," NBC Sports' Peter King reported on Monday.
According to King, Millen has been in the hospital for 68 days and will remain there until he receives a new heart. In April, Millen told the Morning Call in Pennsylvania that he had been diagnosed with amlyoidosis during the summer of 2017 and that his heart was working at 30 percent of its capacity. Amlyoidosis is the build up of abnormal protein in bone marrow that then spreads to organs and other body tissue, causing them to fail.