LOS ANGELES — Cameras flashed when USC’s Jayden Maiava and Nebraska’s Dylan Raiola embraced on the Coliseum field last fall.

The two quarterbacks of Polynesian descent posed with shakas up for a viral social media moment, but the words exchanged between the two meant more than clicks.

“That was a pretty special moment for us,” Maiava recalled to reporters after practice on Tuesday. “Two small kids from the island, playing at a really high level right now in D1 college football. Taking it in and being grateful for where we’ve come from.”

Maiava and Raiola were both born in Hawaii, and the latter is the son of Polynesian Football Hall of Fame member and 14-year Detroit Lions veteran Dominic Raiola. Although the two quarterbacks are not close, Maiava told reporters that their families know

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