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SANTA CLARA — He calls her Mama Chop.
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When 49ers running back Raheem Mostert was a boy, the wife of his youth football coach was like a mother to him, often driving him home from the practice field to the projects in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She always was wary about dropping him off in a neighborhood rife with gangs, drugs and shootings.
“Mama Chop, I’ll be OK,” DeAnne Stokes remembers the young Raheem reassuring her.