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Aaron Hernandez: A Waste in Every Sense

There will be more facts to emerge in the coming days about the death of the convicted murderer and former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who was found dead of an apparently suicide in his Massachusetts prison cell Wednesday morning. But whatever the rest of the story is, this is what we know now: Hernandez wasted what could have been a consistent Pro Bowl career, with an all-time great quarterback targeting him endlessly. He wasted it, period. Don’t make any excuses for him. It’s on him. At the same time, he was responsible for the death of a 27-year-old acquaintance, Odin Lloyd, who was found with 10 bullets pumped into him in an industrial park.