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NFL Notebook: New Jersey’s Rasul Douglas an unlikely hero for the Packers

Green Bay Packers corner Rasul Douglas, the fifth of seven children raised by his grandmother in East Orange, N.J., slept on an apartment floor and bought meals off the McDonald’s dollar menu to get by during his two years playing at Nassau Community College on Long Island.

So this year’s winding journey, including a stop on Arizona’s practice squad, was tough for the former Super Bowl champion. But adversity? Nothing new for a guy who used to walk several miles to junior college in 2013 and 2014 when he couldn’t catch a ride or the bus.

“I always worked hard.