Randy Moss is on the mend.

The Pro Football Hall of Famer and beloved sports commentator appeared via livestream at Thursday’s NFL Honors to present the award for Comeback Player of the Year.

“Good evening everybody. How y’all doing? It is great to talk to you tonight,” he said in his first major appearance since revealing his cancer diagnosis last December. “I’m sorry I could not be there in person to join you all, but I want to send a special thank you to all of my doctors, my beautiful wife, my children, my family, my teammates, and all the prayer warriors out there. We are Mossing cancer, and I cannot wait to get back on television with all my guys.”

Moss went on to present Comeback Player of the Year to Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrows.

“I am thrilled to present an award that I was honored to win myself back in 2007 with the New England Patriots,” he said. “There’s no better story in the National Football League than the one about a player who does big things, overcome adversity, and face obstacles, but ultimately find their way back to the mountaintop.”

The comeback tale has been Moss’s story since his first NFL draft in 1998. Over the years, Moss has played wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans, San Francisco 49ers, and the Minnesota Vikings, the team with whom he’s most commonly associated.

Fans first knew that Moss was dealing with something serious when he stepped away from co-hosting ESPN‘s Sunday NFL Countdown on Dec. 6. A week later, Moss revealed his diagnosis by way of calling himself a “cancer survivor” on Instagram live.

“Your boy is a cancer survivor. Been in the hospital for six days. I just got out today, thank God. So first and foremost, I’d like to thank God for really just blessing me and my family through this trying time, and me being able to come outta this surgery and fight and battle this cancer,” he said.

Moss’ doctors “found it in the bile duct, right between the pancreas and the liver. And the cancer was sitting right outside the bile duct, so my doctors…went in,” he explained. “I had a six-hour surgery.” 

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The last update on the football player-turned-broadcaster came via Brittany Tolliferreo, the chef with whom Moss recently opened a fried chicken restaurant in Miami.

Tolliferreo shared that Moss was in “great spirits” following his diagnosis. “He won’t stop and he wants everything to just be successful and continue to grow,” she said.