According to multiple reports, Wells was diagnosed with leukemia in 2023 and received a bone marrow transplant last spring.

The Wells football team, which has won back-to-back Portland Interscholastic League championships, will have five regular-season home games in 2025, including three PIL contests. / Photo by Taylor ...

Big Blue Nation lost one of its best. Former Kentucky football star Dean Wells passed away Thursday morning after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 54. A Louisville native, Wells starred at Holy ...

Former Panthers linebacker Dean Wells died Thursday morning, following a two-year battle with cancer, the team announced Friday.

SEATTLE – Dean Wells, a former linebacker for the Seahawks who led the 1996 team in tackles, died Thursday after battling ...

The team said Wells died a day earlier ... but the cancer came back just before the start of his alma mater Kentucky's football season in 2023. The former NFL linebacker was reportedly very ...

according to his former team the Carolina Panthers. He was 54. Wells was first drafted into the NFL by the Seattle Seahawks in 1993, shortly after enjoying a successful college football career at ...