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The first time Greg Jones saw Cale Garrett was in 2011. Jones, the coach at Kearney High School in Kearney, Missouri, was trying to peer into his football program’s future when he noticed the young linebacker dishing out punishment to his opposition.
“I knew Cale was special when I watched him in seventh and eighth grade,” Jones said. “He was a man among boys.”
The man that Jones saw on those youth league fields earned his spot as a starter for the Kearney Bulldogs in his first season with the team.