The first year was easily the most difficult for Andy Mulumba.

It wasn’t that the 6-foot-3, 260-pound native of Congo wasn’t accustomed to change. When he was 12 years old, his family transplanted more than 6,000 miles to Montreal, Canada, because of growing government turmoil, safety concerns and corruption.

But here, on the campus of Eastern Michigan University, the teenager was suddenly alone. He was the outsider in a new environment. Barely able to speak English, he stayed quiet with an accent and life story unlike any of the other 20,000 students enrolled at the school.

Mulumba didn’t know it at the time, but the uncertain steps he was taking were the first toward his aspiration of a professional football career.

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