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OSUBasketballJunkie · 11-21-2011, 06:52 AM

Donte Whitner, S, San Francisco: Had one interception and one tackle against Arizona.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 11-28-2011, 06:41 AM

Donte Whitner, S, San Francisco: Had three tackles in the loss at Baltimore.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 12-05-2011, 06:47 AM

Donte Whitner, S, San Francisco: Had two tackles and an assist in the win over St. Louis.

OSUBasketballJunkie · 01-22-2012, 05:31 PM

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Cleveland native Donte Whitner running down his dream with San Francisco 49ers

Published: Friday, January 20, 2012, 12:58 AM Updated: Friday, January 20, 2012, 1:13 AM

By Mary Kay Cabot, The Plain Dealer

San Francisco 49ers strong safety and Cleveland native Donte Whitner went from being told as a little boy that he would probably never walk again to being one step away from playing in the Super Bowl.

"It's tremendous to even be playing football at all," said Whitner, who will face the New York Giants in the NFC championship game on Sunday. "To be one victory away from being in the Super Bowl after everything I've been through is my biggest dream come true." At 6 years old, Whitner was playing catch in his Kinsman Road driveway, and the ball rolled into the street. He darted out after it and was struck by a car driving down the street. His mom, Deborah Robinson, got the call at work that her eldest son had been hit by a car, and she was convinced he was dead.

"Nobody would tell me anything but that he had been hit," she said. "All I could think of was that he was gone and they weren't telling me."

She raced home from her job at a nearby nursing home, blinded by her tears and screaming hysterically. "I could've been killed myself," she said. She was driven to Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, where Whitner had been taken by ambulance.

"I had to be strong in front of him," she said. "But the doctors told me he'd probably never walk again and that he'd never, ever play sports again."

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