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No 'secret sauce' to Detroit Lions RB Zach Zenner's success

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John Stiegelmeier made his way across South Dakota State’s campus one night at his star running back’s request.

Zach Zenner had invited all of his coaches up to one of his dissection labs to see how he spent his free time, and when Stiegelmeier arrived with the Jackrabbits’ team chaplain, they found Zenner and four of his classmates in their element, watching the movie “Napoleon Dynamite” and dissecting cadavers for an anatomy lab.

“They have different areas of the body they look at every week and so the teacher would say, this may be a little gross, but, ‘Zach, we need to look at the brain this week,’ so he would sever the head in half and open it up and label whatever they needed to see,” Stiegelmeier recalled.