It's a good WVU cartoon. (You asked for it ;-)) If you can take off your partisan hat and just enjoy a good story about a kid looking to make it, this is a blast from the past. From Bruce Feldman of ESPN.

http://imgur.com/a/Qmd9Q

And a Follow up..."Freaks Week: Calvin, Peterson and the Top 10 ‘Freaks’ of last decade"

#1. Owen Schmitt, FB, West Virginia (2006)

There have certainly been faster guys and guys who jumped higher than the 6-foot-3, 255-pound fullback, but no Freak had a more colorful story.

"He’s a mutant," said Mike Barwis, WVU’s former strength coach who himself is now a reality TV star on Discovery’s “American Muscle” show. When I wrote about the former walk-on for ESPN Magazine, I did so in a comic book treatment. That style just seemed like an ideal way to tell his story.

Schmitt was born with a cleft lip and palate and would later undergo a trio of excruciating surgeries, where doctors reconstructed his face with bone from his hip. He’d later transformed himself into a budding local football star in small-town Wisconsin and became a 1,000-yard tailback at Division III Wisconsin-River Falls who decided to see if he could play at a higher level. He shopped himself around, twice approaching Maryland, which finally said they had no use for him.

In the WVU weight room, he put up ridiculous numbers, hang-cleaning an unheard-of 480 pounds. Barwis told me that Schmitt did eight bench reps at 405, and "there ain’t many people in America who can do it for one." Schmitt also had surprising speed, clocking a 4.6 40 and once ran through the Georgia D in the Sugar Bowl for a long touchdown. His bruising style also translated into a bunch of bent facemasks. One of them used to sit on Rich Rodriguez’s desk in Morgantown.

Schmitt spent five seasons in the NFL before returning to West Virginia, where he still has folk hero status. He traded in his helmet for a guitar and now often plays for country bands (the Davisson Brothers Band among them) around the Mid-Atlantic region.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/top-10-cfb-freaks-last-decade-calvin-johnson-adrian-peterson-jadeveon-clowney-071014