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Setbacks have made this season's breakout performance that much sweeter for UCLA's Andrews

LOS ANGELES - Sometimes, Darren Andrews wonders where he might be without all the setbacks.

The middling ratings from high school scouting services that initially led him to commit to Duke.

The season lost to a knee injury that was initially feared to be career-ending.

The three offensive coordinators in as many years.

Would the UCLA receiver be leading college football with six touchdown catches in only three games? Would he have developed this kind of chemistry with quarterback Josh Rosen? Would he not only be attending his dream school but having a season that's the stuff of fantasies?

"Everything worked out good," Andrews said Tuesday. "I mean,

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