FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 file photo, South Carolina’s Marcus Lattimore listens to a reporter’s question during an NCAA college football news conference, in Columbia, S.C., after Lattimore announced he was giving up his final season of college football to enter the NFL draft. The former South Carolina star tailback has spent the past two months in Pensacola, Fla., rehabbing his right knee which he shredded on Oct. 27 against Tennessee. Lattimore sustained a dislocation and tore several ligaments in the gruesome injury. Lattimore is confident he’ll be ready to play NFL football this fall. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
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After running back Marcus Lattimore suffered a serious knee injury last October, doctors said he wouldn’t play football until 2014.
Lattimore isn’t that patient.
Already well ahead of schedule in his rehab, Lattimore plans to play in 2013. And after listening to him talk about the situation during a Thursday visit to PFT Live, it’s impossible doubt him.
It’s even harder not to root for him.
Here’s your chance to get to know him better.