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several times. With the phone dangling in his hand and bouncing off his metal crutches, the patient and determined wide receiver shuffled to the other side of his home for nearly a minute to find a better signal. "That's better," he said, a little out of breath but clearly proud of the accomplishment. Life is a lot better than it was on New Year 's Day when the fourstar recruit suddenly dropped to the turf at the U.S. Army AllAmerican Bowl during a morning workout in San Antonio with a broken left femur — the result of a non-contact drill. Hunter 's bright future, at least for a few moments, was in jeopardy. "When it actually happened, at first I was hurt because of the pain," he said. "When I actually realized what happened, I was more hurt thinking about my future. I was hoping Notre Dame didn't pull my scholarship, and I was going to miss my senior year of baseball. "After my surgery I was down and depressed because I wasn't making any progress. This was my first time with an injury." Dr. Richard Steffen, a San Antonio-based sports orthopedic surgeon, performed the procedure on Hunter on Jan. 3, which included a metal rod being inserted into his bone with two screws to hold it in place to speed up recovery time. He hopped on a stationary bike and bent his leg for the first time on Jan. 30. "I started going to