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Bruce CrippenFor The Dispatch
Julie Posey has seen son DeVier shine on the field and in the classroom at Cincinnati LaSalle High School.

Ohio State football
Underdog thriving after uncertain start
Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:42 AM
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Her youngest son, DeVier Posey, a blue-chip receiver recruit for Ohio State, was in repose a few feet away recovering from surgery on his right shoulder a couple of weeks ago. She'd been asked whether that gave her second thoughts about him playing football, with all the hitting that goes on.

Julie laughed.

"You're talking to the mother of a kid who was born missing part of his immune system," she said from their condo in Cincinnati. "So am I sitting here worried because the orthopedic surgeon went into his shoulder, cleaned it up and tightened it up a bit? That's nothing.

"I almost lost this kid three times before he was a year old."

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