New Orleans native Foster Moreau diagnosed with cancer during a physical with the Saints

Free agent tight end Foster Moreau, a Jesuit High School grad and former LSU star, is stepping away from the NFL after being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he announced Wednesday via Twitter. 

Moreau said he learned the news during a physical conducted by the New Orleans Saints medical team. Moreau, who spent his first four NFL seasons with the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders, was in town for a visit with the Saints last weekend.

He said he’s optimistic he will return to the football field after treatment.

“Through somewhat of a miraculous process, this Free Agency period has been life changing for me,” Moreau wrote on Twitter. “During a routine physical conducted by the Saint’s medical team down in New Orleans, I’ve come to learn that I have Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and will be stepping away from football at this time to fight a new opponent: Cancer.” 

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Dr. John Amoss, one of the Saints’ team physicians, made the discovery during Moreau’s physical. Amoss is the same doctor who discovered former NFL long snapper Jon Dorenbos had an aortic aneurysm that required open-heart surgery in 2017.

Moreau, a football and basketball player at Jesuit, was the last player in LSU’s 2015 signing class but made a significant impact while with the Tigers from 2015-18.

Over the course of 49 collegiate games, he had 52 receptions for 629 yards and six touchdowns. He was picked to wear No. 18 as a senior.

The then-Oakland Raiders took him in the fourth round of the 2019 NFL Draft.

Over the next four years as a Raider, Moreau made 91 catches for 1,107 yards and 12 touchdowns, playing in an offense led by new Saints quarterback Derek Carr. He entered free agency this offseason.

“Love you and we are here for you,” Carr tweeted, adding, “Praying for you brother!”