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By Luke Johnson | USA Today
NEW ORLEANS — Kaden Elliss takes the extra time to greet any and every stranger who seeks an autograph, conversation or some of both.
Watch the way he moves up and down the line of fans for an hour after practice in the midday sun. See the connection the New Orleans Saints rookie linebacker makes with people who he might never encounter again, but who might come away from the moment with something to hold onto beyond a signature. Listen to him speak in his relentlessly upbeat aw-shucks way.
Wonder where that all comes from? Talk to the father and get an answer.
“Be grateful for what you have, be grateful for the people in your lives and give back more than you take,” said Luther Elliss, succinctly narrating the family’s belief system in one sentence. ...
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