Matt Lopes grew up around USC Trojans, then eventually became one
LOS ANGELES — Matt Lopes was spent.
It was his first training camp at USC, in August of 2013, the time of year when the afternoon sun bakes Howard Jones-Brian Kennedy Field and never seems to drop below the engineering buildings sitting on its west end.
Amid the swelter, Lopes, then an undersized freshman safety, never caught much rest. He often lined up across Marqise Lee and Nelson Agholor, the Trojans’ All-American receivers and soon-to-be NFL draft picks, asked to cover them in d
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