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Unsung and untold: As Ryan Leaf enters WSU’s Hall of Fame, tales from the QB’s prolific college career

Four years ago, as Ryan Leaf was still trying to detach himself from a series of unremarkable decisions that caused him to spend more than 970 days of his mid-30s behind prison bars, the former Washington State quarterback met a man who had everything he desired.

Before Leaf spent more than two years in a Montana penitentiary, his life was riddled with drugs, addiction, depression and, above all else, deep regret. The man who’d eventually become Leaf’s mentor was leading a peaceful, unchaotic life, and desperately seeking both, Leaf vowed to “follow his advice verbatim.”

Because, five years later, Leaf still acknowledges this reality: “I don’t make the right choices.