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Louisville RB Jalen Mitchell named ACC Rookie of the Week
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One of the real bright spots of the second half of Louisville’s 2020 football season has been the emergence, our of seemingly nowhere, of Jalen Mitchell at the running back spot.
University of Louisville redshirt freshman running back Jalen Mitchell was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Week, the league announced on Monday.
Mitchell had a career day, carrying 20 times for 168 yards in the 45-21 win over Wake Forest, the eighth-most ever by a Louisville freshman. The native of Southwest Brevard, Fla., became the 10
Seedy K’s GameCap: Wake Forest
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Louisville 45, Wake Forest 21.
What a pleasing, comforting, unexpected, hopefully unifying conclusion to a strange, disjointed, disrupted, disappointing 2020 U of L Cardinal football season.
Starting last summer with the Great Unknown: Would there be a season at all? If so, how? Would there be fans in the stands?
Would it actually play out all the way, even if it got off the ground?
Then came kickoff and an underwhelming start. Incomprehensible turnovers. The hope inducing close loss in South Bend, followed by more disheartening efforts.
The weekly wonder of who will have to sit out, and who will take to the field?
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