Long before his six catches for 116 yards and a touchdown helped propel the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl, a teenage Marquez Valdes-Scantling just needed a helmet.
As a freshman at St. Petersburg’s Lakewood High School, Valdes-Scantling was small. His father, Marcellus Scantling, said his son stood just 5-foot-6, and he had to buy him a helmet so that he could play.
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