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Penn State football: TE Mike Gesicki reflects on career, overcoming early struggles | Centre Daily Times

UNIVERSITY PARK

Mike Gesicki jotted down the same nine words in a notebook every single day during Penn State’s 2016 spring camp.

I’m the best tight end in the Big Ten.

Gesicki, now days away from his final game at Beaver Stadium, couldn’t help but reflect on Tuesday afternoon.

“If anybody ever read that, they would’ve laughed at me at that point in my life because you’re not even close to that,” Gesicki said, looking down at the media room dais before picking his head back up. “But I knew what I was capable of.