Randy Moss returns to ESPN Countdown after cancer treatment

Randy Moss returned to ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown on Sept. 7, 2025, nearly 10 months after stepping away to undergo treatment for a cancer diagnosis, telling colleagues and viewers he had completed his care and was back with the studio family. The Pro Football Hall of Famer’s appearance closed a chapter of uncertainty that began in December 2024, when he disclosed his illness and left the broadcast booth to focus on treatment.

Moss and his family have described the disease in several ways, and reports have varied on its precise medical label. Moss has said the cancer involved the bile duct, while Good Morning America coanchor Robin Roberts referred to it as cholangiocarcinoma, a rare bile duct cancer. Some reports identified the illness as pancreatic cancer. Moss underwent a complex surgical procedure often used when tumors are at the junction of the pancreas and bile ducts, and he then received chemotherapy and radiation, according to Roberts and hospital accounts. The procedure has been described in reports as a Whipple operation, or pancreaticoduodenectomy, and teammates and colleagues showed footage of Moss ringing the bell at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute in...