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[URL='http://www.heraldonline.com/sports/high-school/prep-football/article165098912.html'][U][B]Why did South Pointe's Zeek Rodney take a year off from football, and what did he learn?[/B][/U][/URL][B] (heraldonline.com; McCormick)
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[I]Hoisting crates of Pepsi out of a van last February, Zeek Rodney had a stark realization.

He wasn’t where he needed to be.

Rodney played in nine college football games as a true freshman at Wake Forest, then started all 12 games at defensive tackle as a sophomore in 2015. Many were surprised when the school announced he would take a leave of absence from the program in July 2016. A vague press release said Rodney “had some personal issues that he is currently addressing.”

There wasn’t one singular event, “I just wasn’t feeling like myself,” Rodney said. “I was taking everything for granted. I didn’t know if this was what I wanted to do anymore.”

He didn’t play at the level he expected during spring football and said he began to doubt himself. It was an incredible mental rut for a football player that tormented quarterbacks in high school, blasting through blockers like they were piles of dead leaves and setting new quarterback sack records at the Rock Hill school – South Pointe High – that produced Jadeveon Clowney.

“I just wasn’t feeling like myself,” Rodney reiterated Wednesday during a phone interview.[/I]
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