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Shrine Bowl Interview: Pitt’s Bub Means No Stranger To Change And Adversity In Football

In today’s college football climate, players and coaches come and go quickly, moving to new situations quite often. It can be viewed as a negative because it’s making college football harder and harder to follow and is really shaking up the NFL draft scene.

But for former Pittsburgh Panthers wide receiver Jerrod “Bub” Means (6006, 222), it was nothing but a positive.

His journey to the 99th Edition of the East-West Shrine Bowl in Dallas was anything but normal. Means, a native of Lovejoy, Ga., started his college career as a cornerback at the University of Tennessee as a former three-star recruit.