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Elijah Hood: "It's Time To Show What You've Been Practicing"

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thought the best thing to do was send a text.

I mean, in 2017, that’s what most people do when they get good news, right? So that’s exactly what the Oakland Raiders running back did earlier this week; he sat down, added his mom, dad, as well as a few other close friends and family to a text chain, and typed out five, short words that in all likelihood he’d been waiting to type out since September.

“Update: I’m on the 53”

He understandably received a bevy of congratulatory messages back, so many in fact, that the former North Carolina Tar Heel was a little caught off guard.