Detroit News: Mealer moves on

from Detroit News:

U-M's Mealer moves on without father, girlfriend
Lineman leaves OSU country after tragedy, starts new life in Ann Arbor

Associated Press

ANN ARBOR -- Elliott Mealer always believed he was destined to play college football.
Just not at Michigan.

But there he was, all 6-foot-6 inches and 298 pounds of him, emerging from Schembechler Hall on Sunday in a uniform he grew up despising. Now it's part of a new beginning that's helping him slowly replace tragedy.

Mealer's new football home has provided solace 55 miles from Wauseon, Ohio, the small town where Mealer learned to love football and where last December, his life changed.

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