For the most part, having a football career like Junior Seau’s has been a great thing for Fred Warner.

Like Seau, Warner lit up Friday night football games in north San Diego County, then went on to major-college success.

And it’s been ultra-impressive that Warner, 28, has made several All-Pro teams early in his NFL career with the San Francisco 49ers while playing the same position as the late Hall of Fame linebacker.

One more poetic touch: Warner and Seau’s son Tyler became friends and played together for San Marcos’ Mission Hills High School, then trained together on Oceanside’s beaches when Fred was ramping up his fitness for his BYU career and the 2018 NFL draft.

But there’s an unfulfilled quest to Seau’s NFL career that Warner would rather not experience himself.

Seau never won

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