Few Gophers football players are in the same echelon as Antoine Winfield Jr.

But head coach P.J. Fleck puts current receiver Le'Meke Brockington alongside the former All-American safety and current NFL All-Pro with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

How can that be? It’s all about their sunny dispositions.

Flashback to 2017 and ’18: it was the portion of Winfield’s career at Minnesota that was injury-plagued with back-to-back season-ending ailments. The double whammy didn’t keep him down.

“I’d be the first one out on the (practice) field and I’d see him,” Fleck recalled to the Pioneer Press this week. “He’d look at me and smile. He was done for the year, and he’d be (like), ‘It’s alright coach, it’s football.’ He’d smile at you, and you’re like, ‘This doesn’t make sense.’ Most people are crying

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