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How Laquon Treadwell healed

A gruesome injury left Ole Miss and its star receiver a few feet short of a dream season. Now he’s back, leaner and faster.

It's only Treadwell on a treadmill. He isn't jogging particularly fast, but he is jogging. The LaquonTreadwell in the video is 25 pounds lighter than the 230 he weighed last season, when Ole Miss was poised to enter the College Football Playoff—until the moment Treadwell got caught from behind. "That was a long way to go," says Treadwell of the time between those first rehab steps and where he is today. "But it was a start.