![]() "So then when I was able to just sit down for a whole week in a bed and just think about my whole life and think about why I was in this position, why I couldn't play. "I did my things I was supposed to do, but I was just living day to day, never really, like, having consciousness about your steps," Diabate said. Meet the Browns' 2023 draft class: A juggler, a singer and Tate Martell's backup: 7 facts on 7 Cleveland Browns draft picks Staring at one's own mortality can change that quickly. The son of immigrants from Mali in West Africa, he had been raised Muslim, but acknowledged he wasn't as devout as he could've been at the time. So sitting on the sideline, not being able to participate, really gave me a drive to take advantage of every opportunity, take advantage of every moment that's given to me." "That was my first time ever having to miss out on playing football. So it just gave me perspective on how anything in life can be taken away and how you got to cherish every moment. ![]() "It came out of nowhere, had to spent a week in the hospital, lost almost 30 pounds in a week. As he lay in a hospital bed, he was staring down the potential of not just football being taken away, but a whole lot more. The blood flow went to Diabate's shoulder, where the fluid built up and eventually required a procedure to alleviate it.ĭiabate, who was 15 at the time, had started four games that fall for Auburn before the staph infection occurred. It turned out to be a staph infection caused by a wound that wasn't treated properly. They were just giving me stuff to keep my fever down, so the infection was just spreading and spreading until they were able to figure out exactly what it was."Ĭleveland Browns draft grades: Cleveland Browns 2023 draft: Grading the process for picks as much as the players "… So that's why it was life-threatening, because they couldn't really treat anything. "I mean, I wasn't on the verge of death, but I was having intense hallucinations at home before I went," the Browns rookie linebacker said to the Beacon Journal recently. The fever, and the inability of doctors for days not to figure out its cause, led him to be hospitalized. ![]() Things weren't necessarily looking great for him either in the fall of 2016.ĭiabate, at the time a sophomore at Auburn High School in Alabama, was battling a 104-degree temperature. View Gallery: Photos: Cleveland Browns 2023 rookie minicampīEREA - Mohamoud Diabate wasn't necessarily on death's doorstep. ![]()
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