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Priorities change when Jay Prosch's mom is diagnosed with brain cancer

In early April, his mother Iris was suddenly diagnosed with brain cancer in Mobile, Ala. So for eight days Prosch dropped football for family.

"For a split second I wanted to think that (I could stay in Alabama), but I knew I couldn't do that," Prosch said. "I knew if I did that it would tear up everything I've done here."

Shannon Ryan

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