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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Jerricho Cotchery grew up the second youngest of 13 children.
It was easy to get lost in the shuffle.
Do the wrong thing, like be late for dinner, and you end up going hungry.
Fighting to be heard in a family that big can be tough. So Cotchery went the other way. He was quiet and reserved. Disciplined too. If dinner was at 6, better be at the table a couple minutes early, just in case.
It's an ethos Cotchery has carried over to life in the NFL. Never the fastest, the tallest or the more creative player, Cotchery instead has carved out a suddenly thriving 10-year career by doing all the big things right and the little ones too.
''He's the same guy every day,'' Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley said. ''There's very little variance from Jerricho. He's not an up-and-down, yo-yo guy at all.
''He's going to be sitting in the same place in the meeting room, standing at the same place at 10 a.m. in the building, and in the right spots on the field. That's why he's much appreciated.''
An appreciation that's growing by the week. At a time in his career when most players at his position are struggling to hang on, the 31-year-old Cotchery is in the midst of a rebirth.
The 10-year veteran already has a career-high 10 touchdown receptions this season, including five in Pittsburgh's past three games. It's heady territory for a player who began training camp hoping simply to hold off rookie Markus Wheaton for the third spot on the depth chart.
(LOL hell of a typo in the bold)
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