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  2025 BRIAN PICCOLO AWARD WINNER: Boston College's Bryce Steele and Georgia Tech's Keylan Rutledge were named the recipients of the Atlantic Coast Conference's 2025 Brian Piccolo Award, the league announced on Monday. Steele, a 2025 Capital One Orange Bowl–FWAA Courage Award nominee, has returned to the field after missing the 2024 season while battling cancer. This was not Steele's first fight with the disease, as he was first diagnosed with a rare thymoma in 2019, requiring the removal of a 13-centimeter tumor near his heart. Despite the diagnosis occurring during his high school recruitment period, Steele kept it private and successfully beat the cancer before joining the Boston College football program.

Unfortunately, the cancer returned repeatedly, necessitating multiple surgeries over the years and eventually spreading to his chest wall. After a failed round of chemotherapy in 2023, Steele and his family chose an alternative surgical approach. Two months later, he was out of the hospital, cleared for non-contact training, and began the challenging process of relearning how to walk and breathe due to diaphragm weakness. By August 2024, Steele was cleared for full-contact football. In 2025, Steele appeared in nine games for the Eagles, contributing 16 tackles, a fumble recovery, a quarterback hurry and a pass breakup. While the statistics are modest, his return represents an extraordinary triumph over adversity. Steele becomes the third Boston College student-athlete to receive the ACC Brian Piccolo Award and the first since defensive end Richard Yeargin in 2019. - ACC Football


(DS#999 OLB) rSr/2026 OLB Bryce SteeleBoston College
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