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[B]Kentucky senior defensive end DeQuin Evans[/B] is looking forward to his senior season with the Wildcats.
Evans, who is only in his fourth full season of organized football, transferred to UK from Los Angeles’ Harbor College. He led the Cats in sacks (6) and tackles for loss (12.5) last season.
Here is an [B]excerpt of an article on ESPN.com[/B] about UK’s 6-3, 257-pound senior:
[QUOTE]The 6-3, 257-pound Evans is one of the better stories in the SEC.
He was raised by a single mother, along with three younger sisters, in the Park Village projects in Compton. His grandfather, Tavita Maefau, did his best to keep Evans in sports as a youngster, but Maefau died when Evans was only 12.
“That’s a big reason I never got into football when I was a kid. He kept me involved, but I didn’t even play high school ball,” Evans said. “In my world, you were just trying to make it day by day. It was tough. Everything that people see on TV that happens in Compton … that stuff is for real.
“I’ve got a lot of friends who are in wheelchairs now and friends who’ve been shot and didn’t even gang-bang or anything. A lot of times, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I had a friend going to Nevada on full basketball ride, and he got shot one night after a game and was paralyzed from the waist down.”
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[URL=”http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/10665/late-start-to-football-doesnt-deter-evans”]Complete Article[/URL] (worth a read)
