In his darkest moments while recovering from a torn ACL and meniscus, late at night when sleep failed to come, Don Chaney Jr. questioned himself. "I was scared I was going to give up on myself," Chaney said. "I was like, 'Bro, I don't know if I can do th is.' I never had an injury like this. I've had a shoulder (injury); that's nothing. But an injury that can take a year or more to come back from - I was like, 'Bro, I don't think I can do this." The knee injury, which he suffered in the second game of th e 2021 season, cost Chaney most of his second year at Miami. The recovery was tough for the Homestead native. But he drew strength from his family, motivated himself to provide for his daughter, Ava Rose, and became determined to get back on the field.When the Hurricanes hit the Greentree Practice Fields for the first day of fall camp on Friday, Chaney will be ready. "It's like a thing where - you feel me - you sit there, and you're like, 'Wow, can you or can you not?'" Chaney said. "I decided to get up and tell myself, 'Bro, you've got this.' "Every day, I'm in the weight room or every day I'm doing something, I've got to get right. If I don't get back, my daughter can't eat. My momma can't eat. Nothing. So that's just how I went by it the past nine, 10 months." Chaney said his recovery process was "ridiculously hard," and he drew strength from his father, Don Chaney Sr., who would comfort him. He thought of his daughter and knew he needed to work hard to return to the field. - Sun Sentinel
rJr/2026  RB Donald Chaney, Louisville
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