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Fort Dorchester’s Dakereon Joyner stays humble amid the hype

The list is growing long for Dakereon Joyner, and it might yet grow longer.

College scholarship offers? Sure, but this is a different list — a list that’s too long for a kid who just turned 15 years old.

Enlarge Fort Dorchester’s Dakereon Joyner helped the Patriots to the semifinals of the Division I-AAAA playoffs last season as a freshman. (Paul Zoeller/Staff)

In his young life, the Fort Dorchester High school sophomore — a quarterback and the next big thing in a football program that has produced three current NFL stars — has known grief and loss.