Article: WATKINS EXCITED TO BE BACK IN MIX AT LINEBACKER.(SPORTS)

Byline: Jim Polzin The Capital Times

If anything can hurt more than dropping a 45-pound weight on your foot, it's the pain LaMarr Watkins felt last season as he was drifting further and further away from his teammates.

While the University of Wisconsin football team was on a roll for much of the 2004 season, winning its first nine games and moving into the top five in the national rankings, Watkins' morale was in a steady decline.

Oh, sure, he was happy the Badgers were winning. Happy for his teammates. Happy for the program.

But deep down Watkins was hurting because he wasn't a part of the success.

Watkins looks back now and ...

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