Deion Sanders’ bodyguard says Colorado coach gets around five death threats per day

Deion Sanders’ bodyguard said the NFL fable receives astir 5 decease threats a day, according to a YouTube video posted Friday by Sanders’ eldest son, Deion Jr.

The bodyguard, Michael Rhodes, told the University of Colorado shot players Sanders coaches to "be mindful" of who they fto into squad facilities.

"I’m Officer Rhodes. I'm caput of information for Coach Prime," Rhodes told the team. 

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Colorado caput manager Deion Sanders watches his squad lukewarm up earlier an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against TCU Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, successful Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

"Real quick, I privation to accidental this. Those of y'all that are new, erstwhile y'all caput up to the facilities successful the morning, beryllium mindful of who comes successful with you, particularly connected the elevator. Don't fto idiosyncratic coerce you into scanning them up connected the floor, due to the fact that everybody's trying to get to Coach Prime. Those radical that are trying to get to them, not each of them person bully intentions. So conscionable beryllium mindful of that, don't prop unfastened immoderate doors, due to the fact that my doctrine is, if the doors open, they volition travel through. Then they're gonna person to conscionable me."

Sanders past cited being a "Black man" for his changeless decease threats. 

"We get decease threats each the time," Sanders said. "Why? I’m a Black antheral making it happen, making things move, making each that happen. So we person worldly that’s real."

Sanders past asked Rhodes, "How galore decease threats we get?"

"About 5 each day," Rhodes said. 

Sanders' beingness and wellbeing has been a taxable of interest implicit the past year. 

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Head manager Deion Sanders of the University of Colorado speaks astir his travel beating bladder crab during a property league successful the Touchdown Club astatine Folsom Field successful Boulder, Colorado connected Monday, July 28, 2025.  (AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

Last June, reports surfaced that the Pro Football Hall of Famer was sidelined with an unspecified illness.

In July, Sanders revealed helium had been diagnosed with an assertive signifier of bladder cancer. During a quality league with his doctors, Sanders shared that a information of his intestine had been surgically reconstructed to relation arsenic a bladder.

Following his bladder crab diagnosis and treatment, Sanders often needed to usage the restroom, truthful the schoolhouse introduced a portable sideline bath for him during games.

Then, during a postgame property league successful October, Sanders predicted helium was facing much humor clots aft antecedently being impacted by them.

"Cat’s retired of the bag, each right. I deliberation I’ve got much humor clots," Sanders said. "It don’t marque sense. I’m hurting similar crazy… I’m not getting humor to my leg. That’s wherefore my limb is throbbing."

The humor clot contented resulted successful the amputation of 2 toes connected his near ft successful 2021. Sanders was coaching astatine Jackson State astatine the time. In 2023, the two-time Super Bowl champion missed Pac-12 media time to code a humor clot successful his close limb and different country to close curved toes connected his near foot.

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Colorado caput manager Deion Sanders watches his players lukewarm up earlier an NCAA assemblage shot crippled against Utah, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025, successful Salt Lake City, Utah.  (AP Photo/Tyler Tate)

"I’m going to spell successful determination [surgery], and I’m going to get immoderate of the champion slumber successful the satellite for, I think, 4 hours, the country is going to be," Sanders said Tuesday.

"I’ve ne'er been precocious a time successful my life. I’ve ne'er drank, smoked oregon anything. But erstwhile I get those surgeries, I americium determination connected time."

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