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Jermaine Grace embraces leadership role for hurting 'Canes linebackers

Tracy Howard and Jermaine Grace have been friends as long as they can remember.

They grew up playing football together in their Carol City neighborhood. They were teammates on youth league teams and at Miramar High before eventually, both landing at Miami.

So when Grace notched a career-high 17 tackles in the Hurricanes' 30-27 win over Duke on Saturday night, a person might assume that one of the first people to congratulate Grace was his friend.

Nope.

"To be honest, I didn't even say 'Good job,'" Howard laughed. "That's what I expect from him.