Former LSU running back Hokie Gajan has setback in his fight with cancer

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Hokie starred as a running back at LSU and for four seasons with the New Orleans Saints but he never sought the spotlight. Even in his wildly successful career as a color analyst for the Saints Radio Network, he's never been comfortable as the center of attention.

He's in the battle of his life with a rare form of cancer called liposarcoma. He was diagnosed with the disease last fall and was sidelined from his color analyst gig on Saints games for a few weeks to undergo treatment. This is a devil of a disease. The cancer forms in deep soft tissue cells, most often in the limbs or abdomen, and often spreads to other parts of the body.

A tumor in Hokie's thigh caused his femur bone to fracture on Saturday, forcing him to undergo emergency surgery. He's still in the hospital recovering and will be wheelchair-bound for a while until he can get back on his feet.

"I'm scared, I'm nervous, certainly uncertain, but I can promise you this, you know I'm not going to sit around here now and mope about it," Hokie said in his GoFundMe page. "No. 1, because I don't really know where this thing is heading."

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