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ProfessorGAC

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4. Won A Walter Payton Award

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Dec 28, 2022, 08:45 AM

Dec 2022

There's a high bar for that award, so good on him.
On sportsradio yesterday I heard a quote from him where he got his drive by convincing himself that (paraphrasing) " Somebody has to be the best football player in the world; why not me."
And, that perspective put him in the conversation.

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