HEART BROKEN: Michigan top player has lost his only son.
Dametrius “Meechie” Walker, a former high school football star and devoted Michigan football fan, died on Friday
after a two-year battle with bone cancer, the school confirmed.
Walker was a gifted defensive end prospect at Muskegon High School in Michigan who received scholarship offers
from Kentucky, Michigan State, and some MAC colleges, but he aspired to play for the Michigan Wolverines.
But just as Walker was about to realize his ambition, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma after spotting a lump on
his knee in November 2020.
He had an operation followed by nine months of chemotherapy, but the cancer reappeared in 2021, and the tumor
had grown so huge that surgeons had to amputate his left leg.
Despite the decision to remove the leg and tumor, the malignancy spread.
The news that Walker had the condition reached the Michigan football team and head coach Jim Harbaugh.
Walker was invited to a practice in August of this year to meet the players and coaches and feel like a member of the
Michigan football program.
Michigan asked Walker to join the squad for its game versus Maryland on September 24, and he was handed an
autographed jersey with his name on it.
Harbaugh dedicated the game, a 34-27 victory over the Terrapins, to Walker, and the team later gave him the game
ball in the locker room.
