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Ferris State star QB Jayru Campbell forced to get creative chasing NFL dream

Ferris State quarterback Jayru Campbell works out for a video he hopes gets to NFL scouts on Friday, March 20, 2020, at Oak Park High School. Detroit Free Press

It wasn’t anything like what Jayru Campbell imagined it’d be back when he was a four-star recruit at Detroit Cass Tech. Heck, it wasn’t anything like what he imagined it’d be two weeks ago.

But there Campbell was, peeling off his red T-shirt, getting ready to run his third 40-yard dash of the day in front of his aunt, his older brother, two reporters and a couple of TV cameras, with three of his friends keeping time on their iPhones, and two videographers there to chronicle the quarterback's every move.