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Ole Miss’ Tony Conner remains determined to fulfill his NFL destiny

Tony Conner just wanted that damn brace off.

He’d lugged it around through the first two games of the 2015 season, an extra leg weighing him down, keeping him from making the explosive, where-the-hell-did-he-even-come-from? plays that had many experts projecting him as an early-round pick in that spring’s NFL Draft. The minor injury he’d suffered to his right knee in fall camp was just about healed, and he wanted to be unleashed.

And this was Bama. Conner had gone to Ole Miss—just a 20-minute ride down Highway 6 from his hometown of Batesville—to help “put Mississippi on the map,” and there was no better way to do that than to shock Nick Saban for a second consecutive season.