A broken ankle suffered midway through his senior football season at Mission Hills High School set quarterback Gunnar Hensley on a different career path.

“Colleges were starting to talk to me, showing interest, then it went silent once I broke my ankle,” said Hensley, a 3-star player in high school. “Suddenly, there were no options.”

So he went to what he called a “mega recruiting camp” at North Dakota State, where a number of small colleges were looking for players.

The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Hensley caught the eye of the coaches at Augustana University, a small, private college in Sioux Falls, S.D.

He quickly committed to the NCAA Division II school, and now, in his junior season, is a team captain.

Augustana is 3-0 and ranked No. 9 in the American Football Coaches Association poll hea

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