UM freshman wide receiver Jeremiah Payton speaks after practice on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. By
University of Miami freshman Jeremiah Ozias Payton, 17 years young and one of the nation’s finest prep receivers, missed his mother and father when he arrived in Coral Gables from Jacksonville in January to start a new life as a college student and early football enrollee.
“Just lonely,’’ Payton said Tuesday. “Knowing mom and dad isn’t there. Knowing you can’t go to them when you need help. You gotta figure it out on your own. It’s really just the real world.
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