If you ever have the pleasure of standing in the presence of a high-level college or professional football player, you’ll be struck at just how big those dudes are. Obviously, they’re larger than the average male and especially so the closer you get to the ball -- but if your only exposure to this small slice of the population is what you see on television, it’s easy to lose perspective at just how much larger they are than the remainder of the human population.
And any time I happen to be in the presence of a Power 5 or NFL player, one thought comes to my mind: “It’s someone’s job to move him in a direction he very much does not want to go.”
Case in point: TCU running back Sewo Olonilua. At 6-foot-3 and 231 pounds, Olonilua is among the largest running backs in college football. And as the video below shows, he’s also among the strongest.
Do you even lift ‘Wo? That’s a running back squatting 7️⃣0️⃣5️⃣ pounds... Twice. S/O to @SOlonilua33! 💪 #CarterBoys pic.twitter.com/daQH3Rf2w8
— TCU Football (@TCUFootball) February 15, 2019
Now consider the following: Olonilau totaled 135 carries for 635 yards and two touchdowns in 2018. This means that on 133 of his 135 carries -- 98.5 percent of his attempts -- someone (or someones) brought Olonilau -- again, a 231-pound running back who can squat 705 pounds twice -- to the ground or pushed him out of bounds.