Ex-Ohio State football player Dimitrious Stanley dies of cancer

The Ohio State football family is mourning the loss of former Buckeyes wide receiver Dimitrious Stanley, who has died after a battle with prostate cancer at the age of 48.

Stanley suited up for Ohio State from 1993 to 1996, with his best football coming in his final season, a senior campaign in which he led the team with 829 yards and eight touchdowns off 43 catches.

He ended his collegiate career with 63 receptions for 1,136 yards and 13 touchdowns, capping it off with a memorable Rose Bowl performance.

In that famous game against Arizona State to cap off the 1996 season, Stanley led the game with five catches for 124 yards and a touchdown.

He caught a 72 yard touchdown in the third quarter to give Ohio State a 14-10 lead over the Sun Devils and had two critical third down receptions on the Buckeyes' game-winning drive to take the game, 20-17.

Following his football career, Stanley ran for city council in Columbus, worked for a home health company, and in broadcasting for Ohio State football games.

Following his diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2019, he started Brave Men, Inc. to raise awareness of the disease.

“You don’t have to get to the point where I did if you get yourself to the doctor,” Stanley said, via Eleven Warriors.

“All the stuff that I’m going through, I hope people are looking at me and saying, ‘You know what, this could happen to me, but I don’t necessarily have to go through what Dimitrious is going through because I decided to go see the doctor regularly.’

“And if something changes in my body, instead of as a man, we go, ‘Oh, it’ll just go away, whatever,’. Go get it looked at, just in case. And that’s kind of what I want people to get from my experience.”

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