If you’re looking for a feel-good story in the B1G, your search can end in Ann Arbor.

Ryan Veingrad, a DE/TE from Boca Raton, Fla., had scholarship offers from FCS programs Elon and Wagner, but turned down those opportunities for the chance to be on a bigger stage. Instead, he decided to take a risk and jumped at the opportunity to be a preferred walk-on at Michigan.

That type of move, though risky, isn’t too uncommon. But that’s not where Veingrad’s story begins.

What makes this situation even more special? Veingrad is a cancer survivor.

According to MLive.com‘s Matt Wenzel – who recently sat down with the Florida native – Veingrad suffered a season-ending knee injury and was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma all within the past year.

But Veingrad has recovered from both and is now headed to Ann Arbor, where he tries to accomplish another feat: wearing the maize and blue on Saturday afternoons.

Veingrad said the following to MLive.com:

Overcoming those things definitely made my mind stronger and my mental side stronger, so I’m just ready for another challenge and an opportunity.

I’m very excited to prove myself. I just want to go there and try to compete with the best athletes they have there, see what I can do and see how I stack up against full-scholarship Division I athletes. I’ll find my way and I’m ready for the challenge.

Regardless of which B1G team you cheer for – or any team in the country for that matter – this is one story, and one kid, worth rooting for.