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Jared Goff Provides Four-Year College Scholarships to Five Students

Former Cal quarterback Goff helps youth as part of the FATE program in Detroit

Jake Curtis

Jared Goff
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Former Cal quarterback Jared Goff is a Walter Payton Man of the Year candidate, and you can see why after what he did this week.

The Detroit Lions quarterback took youth from the Fate Detroit program on a tour of the Lions facility, then rewarded five of them with four-year college scholarships.

FATE is a 10-year, cohort-based mentorship and enrichment nonprofit program for Detroit youth run by Give Merit.

Check out the report below to get a sense of what Goff did:

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Jake Curtis
JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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