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When asked about his season in Indianapolis, where he never played a down or was picked up by another NFL team, he answers: You’d have to ask them about that. That’s a them matter. Not me.”

When asked how we would like to be perceived, now in his third stop in the CFL, his seventh place in the past 10 football seasons, he said: “It doesn’t matter to me because you can’t control how you are perceived.”

“But what if you could the write the headlines yourself, what would they say,” I asked him.

“I think I do write the headlines,” he said.

And round and round we went. Trying to understand this immense talent who was let go in Regina in mid-season, after being let go in Montreal in mid-season, after going from college to college to college without playing, after barely getting a sniff in the NFL, with no one ever coming out and specifically explaining why.

Chris Jones never explained it after cutting him in Saskatchewan. Jacques Chapdelaine was just as mysterious in Montreal. Clearly, there are behavior and maturity and self-awareness issues with Carter, whose father Cris — who he is not currently talking to — is a Pro Football Hall of Famer and whose Uncle Butch — who he is talking to and being guided by — was one of the best coaches in Raptors history.

Duron comes from a sporting pedigree with great size and speed and all kinds of talents. Lots of receivers, the diva position in pro football, have been all about themselves and still succeeded. Odell Beckham Jr., just became the highest paid receiver in football. Teams will put up with me-first receivers if they have to.