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Update: McKnight Catches On To Hollywood Career

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BOULDER — What do you do when your NFL career is cut short by injuries and your college degree is in sociology?

You start writing television scripts, of course. You take your extensive background in writing, acting, film and story development, and turn it into a second career — even if you actually had absolutely no background in any of those pursuits.

That, at least, is what you do if you are former Colorado standout Scotty McKnight. The player who once rewrote CU’s records for catching footballs has now caught on as a writer, with his most recent work as the lead for an episode of “CSI: Cyber.