Kenechi Udeze: The 2009 Minnesota Vikings Story Left Unnoticed

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Published: May 22, 2009

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... The press on Thursday, as it has for the past month and a half has been placing a shadow over Winter Park in the shape of a number four and have made it perfectly clear what they want to hear.

As Favre now sits in Mississippi shooting cortisone into his throwing arm and in an effort to release a tendon to cease pain in his arm, five-year Viking veteran Kenechi Udeze is at Organized Team Activities and practicing on the field for the first time in over a year.

Kenechi had originally been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on February 11, 2008 right after the 2007 season was officially in the books.

It was a big worry that Kenechi's life was in jeopardy. To the pleasant surprise of the Vikings and Kenechi, the disease was an acute form and would only require a matching bone marrow transplant to make a full recovery. Fortunately, Kenechi's brother, Thomas Barnes, was a matching donor and was very willing to to help his...

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