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Confidently we continue to say as we said two years ago K.J. Myers is the most interesting man on the West Virginia football team. On the field, no, he has not done a whole lot to stay in the fray or to work his way into our conversations. Off the field? He’s been an All-American, and that’s why Dana Holgorsen went out of his way Monday to brag about the fifth-year receiver like never before.

For a guy that’s been here for as long as I have, (redshirt senior wide receiver) KJ (Myers) is a guy that I am proud of. He’s what a program guy is all about. He’s a hard worker, and a great teammate. He hasn’t allowed himself to get discouraged and leave or graduate and move on with life. He’s very motivated to make this a good year for him and a good year for us. I have been very proud of him.

Myers is not rare in that the light went off as he saw the end approaching. He’s rare in that he knows he was the problem and that it wasn’t the system or the staff or whatever surroundings he could point a finger at. He was, in his words, a liability and a hindrance. In the moment, he realized his destructive attitude could have taken down the team and buried all the teammates he grew to care for along the way.

Then it hit Myers, like a deep post in the end zone. He would turn around his life, he’d take his negativity and create something positive for himself and anyone else who cared to follow, by spotlighting an unfavorable element of our society and making it into something people would take inspiration from and admire.

And so it was that at his lowest point in 2013 Myers created the Low Life Culture, a way of living that’s delivered him to the cusp of being a contributor in 2015 and, more importantly, being a difference in the lives of so many others.

True to form, the same person who threw himself into an array of interests and crowds when he was younger as friends and strangers watched and wondered why, Myers decided to build his platform on a paradox.

Nobody wants to be called a lowlife, but Myers thrives when he’s moving against the grain.

“I spun it with the ‘lack of worries’ and made it positive so people would find interest in it when they’d see it, because lowlife has a negative meaning when you see it,” Myers said. “But my whole thing that’s always been big for me during my life is I hate being judged. I hate being stereotyped.

“I’m a man of many talents, honestly. Being an African-American male, you’re often prejudged or stereotyped, especially being a college football player. I was always into so many other things, I always loved doing so many other things and I hated being judged and hated being stereotyped. Low Life is really just about don’t judge a book by its cover. Lowlife has a negative meaning, but Low Life has a positive meaning the way I’m putting it out there.”