ANN ARBOR — Every morning when Ernest Hausmann wakes up, he feels a new sense of passion and motivation.

He’s a linebacker at Michigan and this season was voted a captain by his teammates, but Hausmann has discovered he is more than that. Much more.

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And now, as the Wolverines prepare to play at Nebraska on Saturday with Hausmann returning to his adoptive home and the school where he began his college career, he has joined with another important group to advocate for adoption as an ambassador for Detroit-based Samaritas.

Hausmann was drawn to the organization by close friend and former Michigan linebacker Jarrett Irons, a two-time captain in 1995 and 1996. Samaritas is a Michigan-wide non-profit human services organization and the state’s largest private foster care org

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