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‘Heartbroken’ Saunders comes to grips with career-ending injury

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — This could have been the season when redshirt freshman Cody Saunders enjoyed his first taste of game action at West Virginia.

Instead, he’s giving up the sport, sabotaged by an undetected injury from years ago that, in hindsight, made it miraculous he ever became a Division I quarterback at all.

Saunders didn’t know anything about trapezius palsy when he made a spring break trip home to Panama City Beach, Fla., in mid-March. Saunders was intent on staying sharp for his battle to become WVU’s backup quarterback, so he threw passes to players at his alma mater, Arnold High School.