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Kirk Herbstreit to miss 2022 NFL Draft after finding blood clot
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Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN’s high faculty soccer analyst, introduced Monday he won’t participate within the community’s protection of the 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas this week after discovering a blood clot.
Herbstreit, 52, took to Twitter to announce that he wouldn’t be current for ESPN’s protection of the draft “out of an abundance of warning.”
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ESPN School Gameday analysts Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit speak previous to a sport between the Notre Dame Combating Irish and the Wisconsin Badgers Sept. 25, 2021, at Solider Subject in Chicago.
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“Sadly, I won’t be able to come back out to Vegas and be part of this yr’s protection. Medical doctors have lately discovered a blood clot in my system,” Herbstreit stated in a video. “Very lucky to have actually good docs who I belief. I really feel good, however out of an abundance of warning, I feel I am simply going to take a step again from this yr’s draft protection.
“I am simply unhappy I won’t be able to be on the market. However I might be watching, like everyone else. … I’ll see you guys at subsequent yr’s draft.”
Herbstreit is in his twenty sixth yr with ESPN, the place he’s the lead analyst for the School Soccer Playoff. It was introduced final month he can even name NFL video games for Amazon for the 2022-23 season.
Kirk Herbstreit factors to the gang earlier than the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Sport between the Louisville Cardinals and the Ole Miss Rebels Sept 6, 2021, at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
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Information of Herbstreit’s absence follows an announcement from ESPN NFL Draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. final week that he could be masking the occasion from house as a result of he’s unvaccinated towards COVID-19.