Highland Springs star is now a Super Bowl champ
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Former Highland Springs High School football star Mekhi Becton is now a Super Bowl champion. Becton, 25, is a starting offensive lineman on the Philadelphia Eagles.
"This is the happiest and most emotional I’ve ever been, other than my son being born," Becton told The New York Post. “As a player, this is something you dream about.”
Becton is in his fifth NFL season and first with the Eagles.
He went on to tell The Post what was going through his mind while the Eagles dominated the Kansas City Chiefs.
"I'm a kid from Richmond, Virginia,” Becton said. "People don’t make it out of Richmond from where I’m from. I’m not supposed to be here right now. I was thinking about that and thinking about all the people watching me back home. I was doing it for them, man."
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