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Deion Sanders is going home this week.
So is Travis Hunter, Colorado football’s two-way superstar.
But a possible hurricane is headed for their home state of Florida later this week, forcing the Colorado Buffaloes to leave Wednesday instead of Thursday for Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. ET game at Central Florida, in Orlando. Rain is forecast for this weekend, too, as the Buffs prepare for another wet homecoming game of sorts as heavy underdogs against the Knights (3-0).
“These guys (are) ready to go back home,” said Colorado safety Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig, a native of Alabama. “Everybody (is) trying to trade tickets and everything. We’ve got a million people coming to the game, so everybody is excited to go down there to Florida.”
Colorado’s roster lists 18 Florida players on its roster, second only to players from Texas (21) and more than the 14 players who hail from Colorado itself.
That list doesn’t even include Hunter, who grew up in West Palm Beach before moving to Georgia, or starting tackle Jordan Seaton, a Washington, D.C., product who played at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Sanders, Colorado’s 57-year-old head coach, came from Fort Myers, about 160 miles southwest of Orlando by car. He has made a point of recruiting what he calls his “Florida boys.” He was asked Tuesday what sets them apart.
“That hunger, that thirst, that will, that want, that me-against-the world, that we don’t have the best of things, but we gonna make the most of things the way our parents came up to desolate and (turbulent) times that we’ve come through, the naysayers, the haters,” Sanders said.
Colorado coach Deion Sanders.
Sanders cited the number of players in the NFL that are from Florida. The state ranks second to Texas with players on NFL rosters this year (184-173), according to a study by MaxPreps. Last…
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Publish date : 2024-09-24 20:25:33
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