NFL star Todd Gurley returns to Tarboro to host reading rally for students

TARBORO, N.C. (WTVD) -- Weeks after playing under the bright lights at the Super Bowl with the Los Angles Rams, Todd Gurley helped light up hundreds of small faces in his home town.

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On Monday, Gurley and former University of Georgia teammate Malcolm Mitchell hosted a reading rally for Tarboro Elementary School students.


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Each of the nearly 700 kiddos took home a new backpack with a copy of the book Mitchell wrote and self-published while in college.

Gurley has been surrounded in controversy because of his reduced workload in the playoffs.

Those topics were off-limits to ABC11 during the event. It was reported over the weekend that he may have arthritis in his left knee.