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Former Arizona QB Brandon Dawkins cites mental health in stepping away from football

Brandon Dawkins owes a lot to the game of football, both good and bad. It enabled him to get a scholarship to college as well as a degree from Arizona.

But it’s also impacted his mental health, the former Arizona Wildcats quarterback noted on Instagram Wednesday in announcing he would “take a break” from the sport. This comes two days after he left Indiana, where he had transferred as a graduate student during the summer but failed to win the starting QB job.

Dawkins started 13 games at quarterback for Arizona, including the first five games of 2017.