Former ESPN analyst David Pollack provided a hopeful update after his wife, Lindsey, underwent brain cancer surgery for the third time.
“To me there is nothing better you can give someone than your prayers,” David, 44, shared via X on Wednesday, September 23. “Thank you all so much for your prayers. They are felt. Out of surgery and doing great. Step 1 ✅.”
Earlier this month, David revealed Lindsey had faced a setback in her battle with stage IV brain cancer.
“We didn’t get the best news today at a doctors visit,” David, 44, wrote via X on September 15. “Surgery #3 coming for my Babydoll (wifey). She looked at me and said God has been building me for this, And thank goodness its on a bye week so Nicholas doesn’t have game 🙄.”
David and Lindsey share son Nicholas, 18, and daughter Leah, 16. Nicholas is a senior tight end at North Oconee High School in Bogart, Georgia.
“No blink! No doubt! No fear! Just Jesus!” David added. “Its humbling to watch. It doesn’t mean I’m not scared as hail, but man the Peace of God is incredible. “She is weak right now, but our God isnt. If you are the praying type we will take em all.”
David was a star linebacker at the University of Georgia from 2001 to 2004. He played two seasons with the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, but his professional career was cut short in 2008 due to injury.
Post-NFL, David worked as a college football analyst at ESPN from from 2009 to 2023 before being laid off by the network due to budget cuts.
David announced his wife had been diagnosed with cancer in March 2025.
“I do not share much of my personal life on social media but today is gonna be different,” he shared on social media at the time. “If you are the praying type please lift up my wife Lindsey. She has brain cancer and surgery is Wednesday at Duke.”
David said Lindsey was “cancer-free” the following year.
“Some of Lindsey’s first steps after surgery last spring,” David shared alongside a video of Lindsey via Instagram in March. “We’re a year into a battle that wasn’t always pretty, and sometimes really scary. But we are thankful to be cancer-free. We are thankful for Heavenly grace.”
He added, “All glory to God for being with us every step of the way. Praising through the storm. God’s got us! Thank you to everyone who has supported us up close and from far away. It’s meant everything.”
