Nice nola.com article on new LSU TE Colin Jeter

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Chances of a lifetime by definition tend to happen only very rarely. You can't really expect them to stack up, one on top of the other, in less than a calendar year.

Sometimes, though, if you live your life the right way, fate has a way of smiling on you a little differently.

The last year has been anything but a normal ride for LSU sophomore Colin Jeter.

In the span of a few months in 2012, Jeter graduated from Longview High in East Texas, headed to Basic Cadet Training for the Air Force Academy and then absorbed an unexpected life-changing jolt.

As Jeter was getting into the thick of his 8½ weeks of grueling work on his way to the Air Force Academy, he got a call. His mom Wendy had been diagnosed with breast cancer and she was struggling with the pain, the recovery and most of all, a future that she was unsure of.

Wendy Jeter needed her son, her only child, to come home.

"I was three weeks into it, and I was doing great," said Jeter, a 6-foot-6 236-pound tight end. "But when my mom called, I knew it was time to go home."

Which meant walking away from the first opportunity of a lifetime.

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