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Browns' Terrell Watson: Left on a doorstep as a baby, is he now the NFL's unlikeliest player?

Posted at 3:49 PM, Jul 11, 2016
and last updated 2016-07-11 15:49:23-04

Is Terrell Watson the NFL's unlikeliest player?

That's the title The Guardian gave the Browns running back in a recent feature story.

That's because Watson had an unusual start to life. 

When he was just weeks old, he was found on the doorstep of a townhouse in Oxnard, Calif. 

Watson's mother dropped the baby off at her parents' home, saying she couldn't take care of him and she was leaving him with the only people who could.

“We will take him,” Billy Watson told his daughter, according to The Guardian.

As Watson grew up, teachers speculated he had a learning disability. 

But he was determined to read.

And that determination is what, eventually, earned him a spot on the Cleveland Browns practice field this summer.

Read more from The Guardian.