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Albert Breer

Rookie Tight End Now Part of History With Tom Brady

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Cade Otton was born April 15, 1999, when Tom Brady was in spring ball ahead of his fifth year at Michigan. He turned six years old two months after Brady won his third Super Bowl. By the time he graduated high school, Brady already had five rings.

So the first thing I asked Otton—when I got him on the phone Sunday night after he caught the game-winning touchdown pass from Brady against the Rams—was whether he had a sort of Where the hell am I? moment in the hour before we talked.

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