NFL player-turned-farmer Jason Brown challenges ACC's brightest to change world

Posted Apr 21, 2016
As a senior at UNC, Jason Brown was among 32 athletes honored for academic excellence at the 14th ACC Postgraduate Scholarship awards luncheon. That was 2005. Brown returned for the 25th annual event last Wednesday, this time as the keynote speaker. He was a football player then, bound for the NFL. He is a self-taught farmer now, bound for greater glory. (Greensboro News & Record)

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