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'Pooh Bear' passion: Chargers' Derwin James ready after two injury-shortened seasons

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- You'd never know it by looking at Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James Jr.'s chiseled, ripped body, but when he was a baby he used to steal his cousin's bottle to get the extra formula. He got to be so pudgy that his mom started calling him "Pooh Bear" -- and still calls him that to this day.

"When I first had him," his mother, Shanita Russell, told Warchant -- Florida State's Rivals website -- in 2016, "he had a head full or curly hair ... and then he was so plump he looked like a little bear to me.