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For Hurricanes, youth football camps a chance to give back to communities in their hometowns

Not long after he got off the bus that brought him from Miami’s lush Coral Gables campus to the Richmond Heights neighborhood where he grew up, Jaquan Johnson made a beeline to the sign-up tent at Mark Richt’s latest youth camp.

While some of his teammates milled about waiting for directions on where to go and what to do, Johnson — a second-team All-American safety last year and one of the leaders of the Hurricanes defense — grabbed a pen and himself began the work of making sure his two nephews would be able to participate in the camp he’d be helping run early on this Tuesday morning.