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WHEN WORDS GET IN THE WAY

By Bruce Feldman

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

[For more on this story, check out Bruce Feldman's BEHIND THE STORY.] Linebackers aren't supposed to be sentimental. But Patrick Trahan can't help himself. Ask him about the highlights in his life, and he drifts back to March 17, 2007, an afternoon that could have passed for a sun-kissed September Saturday. It was A-Day, the annual Auburn spring game, and the first time the Tigers faithful saw the player that Trahan had become. The 6'2", 210-pound once-shy project was now 230 pounds and a ...

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