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James Harrison’s Complicated, Controversial High School Days

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CONVENTRY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — One of Cyle Feldman’s duties on the Coventry High football staff, along with being an offensive coordinator who didn’t call plays, was to drive the kids who lived outside the district home after practice.

James Harrison was one of those kids. Most weekend nights he’d load up in coach Feldman’s car and drive six miles north to Akron, where Feldman would drop off the star fullback/tailback/linebacker/edge rusher on Noah Avenue, right off Copley Road.