Deion Sanders Gets Portable Toilet Put Next to Colorado Bench After Health Issues

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders is working with a portable toilet next to the Buffaloes' bench as he continues recovering from bladder reconstruction surgery, ESPN's Adam Rittenberg reported Friday.

The privacy tent set up over bathroom was branded during Friday night's season opener against Georgia Tech by the incontinence product company Depend.

Sanders underwent bladder removal surgery this spring after being diagnosed with bladder cancer earlier this year.

His medical team said during a July press conference that the surgery had been successful and that Sanders had been "cured."

Sanders also detailed some of the challenges he had been through while recovering from the procedure.

"It's a totally different life. I depend on Depend, if you know what I mean," Sanders said in July.

Sanders referenced the incontinence product brand again in a branded Aug. 22 post on social media, in which he wrote: "Ain't NO SHAME in taking care of yourself. NO SHAME in getting health screenings. And there certainly ain't NO SHAME in needing added protection or using Depend to stay in the game. That's not weakness — that's WINNING."

Sanders is heading into his third season with Colorado, and his second without his sons Shedeur and Shilo Sanders or two-way star Travis Hunter on the roster.

Transfer quarterback Kaidon Salter is set to start when the Buffs open the 2025 season against the visiting Yellow Jackets at 8 p.m. ET.