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Power running back Chris Faison is Floyd's brick wall

William Floyd's Chris Faison rushes for a third-quarter

Photo credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke | William Floyd's Chris Faison rushes for a third-quarter touchdown against Sachem East in the Suffolk Division I football final at LaValle Stadium. (Nov. 25, 2012)

Chris Faison's running style resembles a bouncing pinball. The more contact, the more scoring.

"He is the most violent runner I've ever seen," Floyd coach Paul Longo said of Faison, who transferred in from Longwood partway into the season and transformed the Colonials' offense. "And I mean that in a positive way. He seeks out collisions."

It's not that Faison minds running in the open...

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