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UNM football walk-on makes the most of his time

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Through spring practices, fall camps, every in-season workout for five years, David Georges was there.

He did the running, lifted the weights, studied the playbook, did everything he was permitted to do as a college football walk-on.

Come game day, he almost never got to play.

What was in it for him?

Essentially two things, the fifth-year University of New Mexico tight end said in a recent post-practice interview: selflessness and self-worth.

If those words are in apparent contradiction, let Georges explain.

“What I’ve gotten out of (these past five years as a walk-on), to be quite honest, is self-worth,” he said.