Former NFL player Christ Draft, 35, has been in the news a lot recently because of the tragic death of his wife, Lakeasha Monique Rutledge.

Draft, who died from lung cancer on Dec. 27, just a month after the couple were married. Draft says his wife was not a smoker. She found out about the cancer when it was in stage 4 and had no symptoms beforehand.

True to his spirit as founder of the Chris Draft Family Foundation, which seeks to uplift communities, Draft is now turning his attention to detecting lung cancer earlier.

He and his late wife founded Team Draft, which he launched at the Super Bowl.