Former Bergen Catholic star Jarrett Guarantano gives bullied student a special day

Former Bergen Catholic star and current Tennessee quarterback Jarrett Guarantano has a "new best bud."

On Sunday, the Lodi native tweeted a photo of him posing alongside Keaton Jones, a Tennessee middle school student who drew national attention this weekend after a video of him crying about being bullied went viral.

Jones' mother posted the video on Facebook on Friday after picking her son up from school because he was too afraid to go to lunch out of fear of being bullied.

In the video, a crying Jones describes what his bullies had done to him and offers advice for others in his situation.

By Sunday night, more than 19 million people had viewed the video.

Guarantano, who starred at Bergen Catholic before graduating in 2016, was one of them.

On Saturday, he posted a tweet asking for someone to let Jones' mother know the team was trying to reach out because "Keaton has some friends on the football team that would love to spend some time with him."

That meeting apparently happened on Sunday as the two spent the day together.

"Now I have the little brother I always wanted!," Guarantano says in the tweet.

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