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Keeler: How Broncos RB Jaleel McLaughlin ran from homelessness to NFL heroics: “I don’t want to live life with any regrets.”

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For three months, his bed was the back seat of a Ford Focus. As a teen, Jaleel McLaughlin went home to a McDonald’s parking lot — a five-star speedster living out of a four-door sedan.

“You know, there (have) been games where I’ve had a great game and I’d come home to nothing,” the undrafted Broncos rookie recalled Tuesday after practice at Dove Valley. “I’d come home to sleeping in the car.

“So that’s why … I don’t never get too high and never get too low. Because the unexpected can happen.”

If your pulse doesn’t lambada whenever McLaughlin touches the ball, check your heart.