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Article: Jacobs is Giants' all-around back ; He took long route to top
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2008
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GLENDALE, Ariz. - Never in his years down in the bayou in a town
of 700 called Napoleonville, La., did he feel it. Nor did he in
those two seasons along the Verdigris River in a place called
Coffeyville, Kan., close to the Oklahoma border.
But at Auburn University? Now that was different. Oh, how Brandon
Jacobs will tell you of the isolation he felt down there in Alabama.
After all, try being the third tailback in a system that was built
for two - especially when the names ahead of you (Ronnie Brown and
Cadillac Williams) had the NFL draft pickers salivating.
"The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I
just wanted to play football," said Jacobs, who will get his wish
one ...
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