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Troubled ex-Cass Tech QB Jayru Campbell graduates from JUCO as 'leader,' national champion

Three years ago, some thought Jayru Campbell would never make it to college, let alone graduate from one.

The former Detroit Cass Tech quarterback proved a lot of people wrong when he received a two-year degree from Garden City Community College in Kansas and walked in the school's commencement last week.

As a prominent member of Garden City's football program, Campbell's coaches say he worked tirelessly to put his checkered past behind him, including a pair of 2014 arrests that cost him his senior year of high school and a Michigan State football scholarship.

In Kansas, he helped the Broncbusters win a national championship in 2016.