Dez Wells discovers a picture of himself in an anatomy textbook

Many college athletes feel exploited when they see their image on a billboard advertising season ticket packages or their jersey being sold at the campus bookstore.

Maryland wing Dez Wells experienced the same sensation at a completely unexpected juncture.

Wells received a message from a friend who was flipping through the pages of his human anatomy textbook and found a picture of the 6-foot-6 senior playing basketball for Xavier a few years ago on the first page of a chapter entitled "Qualitative biomechanical analysis to improve training." That predictably floored Wells enough that he tweeted a photo of the page and his thoughts on discovering himself in it.

The Sporting News did some quick digging and found that the book is entitled "Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise" and costs $74.44 on Amazon, not a penny of which will go to Wells. That seems reasonable since he's not essential to the book the way he is to ticket or jersey sales, but it's a testament to the charged climate in college athletics today that even something this small would inspire that reaction from Wells.

(Thanks, Sporting News)

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