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FAU football recruit recap: John Raine

Part seven of our weekly series highlighting each of the 19 players that signed with FAU on National Signing Day

Owls head coach Charlie Partridge looks at the scoreboard Saturday in the final minutes of his team's 33-15 loss to Buffalo on Sept. 19, 2015. Max Jackson | Staff Photographer.

Florida Atlantic incoming recruit and Westminster Christian senior tight end John Raine originally thought football wasn’t his sport.

Despite his start playing in a youth football organization — Pop Warner — Raine stopped because he thought he was a basketball player.

“I played basketball, that’s what I wanted to do,” Raine said.