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From seventh-grade phenom to failed QB to elite receiver

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- David Sills V has learned to embrace all that's he has been. And all that he never was.

He was the wunderkind quarterback, who first pierced the taboos of early-age recruiting.

He was the 13-year-old whom Lane Kiffin notoriously offered to USC, after watching only one highlight clip.

He was then the latest cautionary tale of an athlete gaining fame too young.

But that wasn't the end of Sills' story.

And after exhausting his quarterback ambitions through all means, including giving up his scholarship at West Virginia for one last try in junior college, Sills has found a new calling.