At two different points, John Metchie III’s football future was in flux.

Any of the potential he’d flashed faded into the background.

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As a freshman at Saint James School in 2014, Metchie found out about an enlarged heart condition that sidelined him for most of the season.

Then, after already tearing his ACL in the 2021 SEC Championship game, doctors diagnosed Metchie with acute promyelocytic leukemia before his first training camp with the Texans in 2022, and he missed his entire rookie year.

Mike Still, his assistant coach in high school who keeps in touch with Metchie, vividly remembers the conversations after the heart conditi

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