COLUMBUS, Ohio — Andrew Brown has spent the past four years being pleasantly surprised by his son Devin’s accomplishments as a football player. Those surprises started early and have come to define the relationship between the two while also turning Devin into the highly-rated recruit he became by the time he graduated. Andrew would frequently find ways to doubt his son. And every time, Devin would prove him wrong. Those moments started young when Devin was adamant that his future was as a quarterback. Andrew didn’t see it and wasn’t willing to sugarcoat things to spare his feelings. “ ‘Devin, you will not be a quarterback,’ ” Andrew told him. “You’ll probably end up having to play the piano or something. I don’t know if you’re going to be an athlete.” That’s all the motivation Devin needed. From that moment on, everything he did was about being able to look…
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