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Kenjon Barner grateful for Panthers present, past. Bar glasses played a key role.

There are players you like. You like talking to them and you like watching them play. Kenjon Barner is one of them for me.

A Carolina Panthers running back and return specialist, he has quick twitch reactions, the instant kind, here and then gone.

“I’ve always been a fast kid,” says Barner, 29. “I spent a lot of time running from my older brothers growing up. I had five older brothers so I spent a lot of time trying to get away from them.”

Barner grew up outside Los Angeles in Riverside, Calif., and became a star at Oregon.