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Former Rebel Marquel Martin goes from sweet love to sweet cookies

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Marquel Martin went from playing college football, to becoming a reality TV star (for five weeks) on ABC's "The Bachelorette," to baking cookies for the media and freeloaders from the hospitality suites during halftime of Saturday night's UCLA-UNLV game at Sam Boyd Stadium.

This is an interesting career arc, but not one you could envision for somebody like, say, Ndamukong Suh.

Before he tried to romance a 26-year-old assistant district attorney from Atlanta named Andi Dorfman on national TV — he got booted off the island, or whatever, after five weeks — and became a suave and debonair Cookie Monster, Marquel Jayloni Martin of Rialto, Calif.