A really good article on Hutson Mason and Lutz

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Sunday morning, Hutson Mason woke up to a text message from Zach Mettenberger, who was briefly Mason’s teammate at Georgia.

That’s not out of the ordinary. Mason keeps in touch and has had many conversations with Mettenberger over the last few seasons, even as Mettenberger went on to play at LSU and, most recently, was drafted by the Tennessee Titans.

But that wasn’t all.

Mason’s former coach at Lassiter High School, Chip Lindsey, had also called.

At that point, Mason knew and felt that something was wrong.

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Mason was one of the last people who had an opportunity to talk to Lutzenkirchen — less than 48 hours before he died.

“It’s a conversation I’ll cherish,” said Mason, Georgia’s expected starting quarterback for the 2014 season. “It seemed like it was God-ordained. He reached out to me and said he was praying for me. He wanted me to have a big year this season after all the things I went through (waiting four years for the chance to start.

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