More than just a running chance

Lifetime of hard work, perseverance positions Freeman for success.

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Hankerson seizes chance to shine — Game Day, C10-11

If you think it’s difficult corralling Devonta Freeman when he picks up the first scent of freshly painted end zone, try getting him to stand still on a locker-room carpet.

Interviews last week with the NFL’s leader scorer and the found gold of every fantasy football league out there were fleeting at best. A minute here. Two minutes there. Sorry to cut you off, got to go lift weights.

Understand that the man has run in six touchdowns the past two weeks, the only play-

Falcons MORE INSIDE Full coverage from Saturday, C6-7 KNOXVILLE, TENN. — He went down and you wanted to turn away.

He went down, grabbed his knee and was still lying there, writhing in pain, when the thought occurred, “This is going to look bad on replay.” Then you looked at a screen and saw it again, from a different angle, close up, slowed down and you turned away and thought, “I don’t want to see that again.”

This is how a season ends — probably for a player and for all intents and purposes for a team.