Dorian Thompson-Robinson on 5 up-and-down years with Chip Kelly, need for consistency

LOS ANGELES — Walk through UCLA’s Wasserman Football Center and you’ll find a chess board everywhere from the locker room to the quarterback room to a support staffer’s office. Seth Makowsky, a chess coach who now works with college and NFL quarterbacks, began working with the program a few years ago and has become a mentor to several players.

One of them, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, plays at least one game every day. The Bruins quarterback wears five motivational wristbands on his arms. One of them, from Makowsky, says: “Player, not a piece.”

“This is how I play football now,” Thompson-Robinson said. “Everybody has a different playing style. Everybody has a different way of seeing the game. Go out there and play your style. Don’t be a robot out there.”