Jared DeVries pulled from practice

Posted by Jeff Jorgensen on June 24, 2009

Detroit Lions veteran defensive end Jared DeVries was pulled from the practice field this morning and informed by Lions officials pulled Jared DeVries from the practice field this morning to break the news that his high school coach had been killed.

“We found out during practice and what we did is got him off the practice field … and informed him of that and let him start to deal with that,” said Lions head coach Jim Schwartz. “That’s a tragedy. There are special relationships in life, there are fathers and sons, there’s sisters and brothers and things like that and there’s a special relationship between a coach and a player. Particularly in high school when boys are developing into men. Everybody’s going to have to be there for Jared to help him get through this.” [From mlive.com]

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