Getting your player ready...
BOSTON — Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich returned to the field for Saturday’s season-opening 38-20 win against Weber State after missing the entire 2009 season while recovering from cancer.
Herzlich, the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference defensive player of the year, missed last year as he underwent treatment for a rare form of cancer called Ewing’s sarcoma. He also missed part of training camp with a foot injury.
He led the team out of the tunnel — about 10 yards ahead of the rest of his teammates — and took his helmet off and looked up into the student section, spreading his arms wide, as the crowd roared.
“It was excitement. I thought I might be nervous,” he said of his charge into Alumni Stadium.
