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Family factors drive Packers rookie RB A.J. Dillon to runs with 'chip on my shoulder'

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — When A.J. Dillon was almost 10 years old, he descended the stairs one afternoon to find his mother sleeping on the couch, still wearing her waitress uniform.

She was resting after another shift. Only a few hours remained until her next gig, night classes for her master’s degree at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

It was always that way for Jessyca Gatewood-Campbell. A single mother at the time, jobs rolled into classes that rolled back into jobs, a continuous cycle of trying to make ends meet.