When Dru DeShields takes the field to lead Kent State’s offense on Saturday at Doak Campbell Stadium at Florida State, it’s not an opportunity he takes for granted.

Given what he’s been through the last three years, battling through injury after injury, the Beloit native and West Branch alum knows just how fortunate he is to even be on a football field.

“I just try to take full advantage of my opportunity,” DeShields said. “It’s a blessing. I definitely have to keep getting better every day and take full advantage of the opportunity.”

After DeShields threw for 279 yards and two touchdowns, while also rushing for 37 yards and a touchdown, in his first career start in the Golden Flashes’ narrow loss to Buffalo last week, interim head coach Mark Carney named DeShields Kent State’s starting

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