Foster Moreau, free-agent tight end, confident as cancer battle begins: 'Getting ready to kick someone's a--'

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As a free agent, tight end Foster Moreau was ready to visit different teams around the NFL to see where he might end up next in his career. 

He wasn't expecting to hear he had cancer. 

Moreau announced he was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma last week, saying he will be stepping away from the NFL to treat it. 

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Tight end Foster Moreau of the Las Vegas Raiders warms up before a game against the New England Patriots at Allegiant Stadium Dec. 18, 2022, in Las Vegas.  (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Speaking on ESPN's "The Adam Schefter Podcast," Moreau walked the NFL insider through how he learned about the "scary" diagnosis while on a visit with the New Orleans Saints. 

"It’s like a normal family doctor type of checkup. [The doctor] puts his hands on me, and the first thing he touches, I swear to you, he touches my left lymph node system right here up in my collar bone. And it’s shocking to him how swollen this thing is," Moreau said. "He’s like, ‘We need to check this thing out. It’s about the size of a golf ball.’"

Moreau added that he was watching March Madness highlights after going through a CT scan waiting for the results on what the doctors believed could be cancer. 

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When he returned, it was news Moreau didn't want to hear. 

"Obviously, I’m shell shocked," he explained. "Stoic, trying to take it as best I could. They do an on-site biopsy where they cut small two-centimeter little incisions, and they take some pore samples out of my lymph node there."

His initial thought? 

"Fear. It’s a term I