COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — After KC Concepcion scored two touchdowns to help No. 16 Texas A&M to a win over Utah State last weekend, he confidently strode to the podium, warmly greeted the assembled media and flashed a huge smile before answering questions for almost 10 minutes.

It’s a scene the receiver couldn’t have imagined as a kid when a severe stutter led to bullying in school.

Now 20, Concepcion still stutters and admitted that speaking publicly remains challenging for him.

“I’m really still kind of getting comfortable with it,” he told The Associated Press after practice this week.

He recalled how some kids treated him as a child and that the classes meant to help him only made him feel more self-conscious about his stuttering. He was picked on.

“It kind of used to be reall

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