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Good job, Cincinnati! Bengals Re-Sign Cut Player To Provide Him With Check, Medical Insurance For Daughter’s Cancer Treatment Bengals Defensive Tackle Devon Still was cut over the weekend due to poor performance …but the team knew he was distracted due to his 4-year-old daughter recently developing pediatric cancer . The team made the admirable move of adding him to their practice roster to make sure he had access to a steady check and health insurance to cover his little girl’s treatment. Via DailyMail : A player cut from the Cincinnati Bengals at the weekend has been re-signed by the team so that he can pay for his four-year-old daughter’s cancer treatment. Defensive tackle Devon Still, 25, said he understood why he was dropped from the 53-man roster because, since learning in June that his daughter Leah has stage 4 pediatric cancer, he has struggled to concentrate on his game. ‘My whole world turned upside down,’ he told ABC News. But after failing to make the team on Saturday, the Bengals brought him on to the practice squad instead, which means he will still get paid and receive health insurance. ‘They could have washed their hands with me and said they didn’t care about what I was going through off the field,’ Still said. ‘It’s like a blessing in disguise for me.’ The move means that he will receive a weekly salary of $6,300, will have to travel less and get to spend more time with Leah, who is being treated in Philadelphia. The support from the Bengals – which includes allowing Still to miss Sunday’s game in Baltimore – comes after he was out of six games last season for injuries to his elbow and back. Speaking with Bengals.com, he explained: ‘They said if I keep working on my physical… and mentally prepared myself to focus on football then they can move me back up to the roster so I am not all the way out of the loop… ‘Just them sticking by me through this whole time, they understand exactly what I am going through. It is a blessing I am on this organization.’ On ABC, Michael Strahan called it a ‘classy, classy’ move by the team. The proud father, who is engaged, has also shaved his head in support of his daughter, who has lost her hair to her treatment. Isn’t that amazing? Judging by Still’s Instagram, little Leah has a bright and happy little spirit despite her illness. Hopefully she can pull through! Instagram

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A Lil Positivity: Cincinnati Bengals Re-Sign Previously Cut Defensive Tackle So He Can Pay For His 4-Year-Old’s Cancer Treatment