Lynn Ischay/The Plain DealerAlex Mack's goal as a Cleveland Brown is simple, he said on Sunday. "I plan to be the best football player possible."
BEREA -- New Browns center Alex Mack is a California boy, but has strong Ohio roots. His dad, Steve, is from Lima, and played basketball at Baldwin-Wallace in Berea, not far from the Browns facility. Mack, the Browns first-round pick, spent his summers vacationing at the quaint cottage community of Lakeside, on the shores of Lake Erie near Marblehead.
His grandparents had a cabin there and the whole family gathered there every summer for a reunion and fish fry. He still has an aunt and uncle and slew of cousins who live near Lima and Lakeside.
"Half my family was beside themselves [Saturday], seeing me come out to Ohio again," he said during a press conference in Berea Sunday.
His dad actually predicted Saturday's events.
"Before the draft, he was like, 'I think you're going to be a Brown,'" said Mack. "He was just making a guess. He either got lucky or he's pretty smart."
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