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From not starting in high school to leading No. 7 Florida, Kyle Trask never stopped competing

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. – As he lay on the lush turf last Saturday afternoon, fearing the worst, Kyle Trask wondered: Why now? The Florida quarterback’s knee had twisted. He’d heard a pop. His mind immediately went to what it might mean.

“Scary,” Trask calls it now, long after the diagnosis came back – a sprain – and after he’d come back into the game to help lead the Gators to a win against Auburn, which is the program’s most significant in years.