Football players shave heads for 7-year-old KU fan battling cancer

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Several Kansas football players have shaved their heads to support a 7-year-old Jayhawk fan with cancer.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the effort is the latest to support Cole Hayden. As the son of the team’s academic and career counselor, Cole formed a bond with the team even before he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called undifferentiated sarcoma.

We are fighting alongside our warrior, Cole!! Stay strong buddy!!#TeamCole🎗 pic.twitter.com/eITRV1iUgi

— Kansas Football (@KU_Football) November 2, 2016

Previously, members of the team have visited him in the hospital. And almost all of the Kansas football players and coaches wore wristbands emblazoned with #TeamCole during the team’s August training camp.

Junior linebacker Joe Dineen led the head-shaving charge in recent days despite setbacks of his own. Dineen was shut down for the season on Tuesday after battling with a nagging hamstring injury.