CINCINNATI — Nearly two weeks ago, Bengals cornerback Dax Hill took to the field at Paycor Stadium wearing bright blue and yellow cleats emblazoned with images raising awareness for people affected by osteosarcoma, a bone cancer largely affecting children.

Edgewood's Walker Smallwood is an osteosarcoma survivor and one of several people who either battled the disease themselves or knew someone who did who attended a practice with Hill ahead of the game.

He told us he was an athlete focused on playing basketball and baseball before chronic knee pain forced him to seek out medical care.

Smallwood said that, at just 15 years old, doctors found a lesion and told him to seek care at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

"That was where I first heard osteosarcoma, and my first thought was, 'What

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