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Adopting Taught Jerricho Cotchery About Love

The new ACC Network video about former NC State Wide Receiver Jerricho Cotchery and his family is extremely moving. He and his wife Mercedes were unable to have children biologically, and Jerricho had a fear that he wouldn’t be able to have the same love for an adopted child. The two of them went to a Christian conference in 2007 that a bunch of football players go to each year, and God used the words of Dr. Vodeie Bauchaum to change Jerricho’s heart towards adoption.

“That’s the Lord totally changing a man’s heart. To be honest, I was against it.