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Washington State’s Kyle Sweet bucking trend by being a white wide receiver in the Pac-12

Numbers show that wide receiver, running back and cornerbacks spots in Pac-12 and NFL filled mostly by black players

Eric Sweet wasn’t in the room when his son, Kyle, was told for the first time that the color of his skin might have something to do with the number of college athletic scholarship offers he was getting.

But he remembers exactly how Kyle, now a freshman receiver at Washington State, relayed the news when he got home.

An assistant coach for a Pac-12 team had stopped by Santa Margarita High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.