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Troy Dye using familiar (and familial) template to get early playing time

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When Tony Dye was playing at UCLA and in the NFL from 2008 to 2014, he never got a chance to see his younger brother Troy Dye -- now a freshman linebacker at Oregon -- play football. Based off what he had heard about Troy's games, Tony didn't really feel as though he was missing out.

"Troy was not a very impressive football player according to my parents and my friends back home," Tony said. "We never really discussed a future for him in football because it didn't appear that there was going to be one.