Eric Berry, the beloved Kansas City Chiefs player who played three college seasons in Knoxville, Tenn., returned to practice Wednesday just eight months after a scary cancer diagnosis.

Doctors found a mass on the right side of Berry’s chest after he complained about pains in a game against the Oakland Raiders on Nov. 20, diagnosing him with Hodgkin lymphoma weeks later.

Just 247 days after the diagnosis, which preceded six rounds of chemotherapy treatment, Berry led the Chiefs defensive backs in warmup drills at Missouri Western State University to start training camp.

“It’s truly a remarkable thing in our business and in sport and in life,” trainer Rick Burkholder said, according to ESPN.com.

Berry actually gained one pound during chemo, requesting treatment in such a way that allowed him to continue to work out, the Kansas City Star reported.

“There were times where I would work out and I’d be crying after the workout,” Berry said, according to The Star. “It was to the point where I had to set goals where I was like I just had to get out the bed.”

The three-time Pro Bowl selection was the SEC’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2008 and won the Jim Thorpe Award as the country’s best defensive back in 2009 while playing for the Tennessee Volunteers.

His younger brothers, twins Evan and Elliott Berry, are sophomores who played as true freshmen for the Vols in 2014.

Eric Berry did not participate in the full training camp practice Wednesday and isn’t a guarantee to play in the Week 1 opener. But the fact that he’s cancer-free and healthy is a huge relief for his family and fans.

“I’m telling you ‘we’ll see,’” Reid said, according to The Star. “but you’re going to talk to him and he’s going to tell you ‘I’m there.’ So we’ll just take it gradually and see how he does here. We’re not going to force him into anything, and we’ll try to be as smart as we can with it.”