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Big Red pride: JC Tretter's path to NFL went through Cornell

BEREA, Ohio -- JC Tretter made one visit to a college as a high school senior and decided he didn't need to make any more.

Cornell, the Ivy League school some 120 miles up I-90 and Route 96 from his hometown of Batavia, N.Y., was where he wanted to be.

He signed before Thanksgiving of his final year of high school.

"I had family that had gone there; I had a sister there," Tretter said Wednesday at Cleveland Browns training camp. "They were my No. 1 choice. I knew I wanted to get a great education.