re: 2015 Fall Camp Discussion

Larry Jackson on Daylon Mack:

“I know everyone wants to know about Daylon Mack. When you think about the D-line, you think about guys like Daylon, Myles (Garrett) and Daeshon (Hall) all on the same line. With Daylon, we have plenty of weights for him to lift. The Ags have given a lot of money to make sure we can fill that room with plenty of weights. I guess the thing I didn’t anticipate, we use the standard bars that all weight rooms use, but he is so strong. When we were doing chain squats, with 33 pound chains hanging off each side of the bar, so you have 66 extra pounds when they are completely off the ground. So he has 600 pounds on the bar, plus the chains and that is all we could fit on the bar. We thought it was secure. He starts to go up, and the clamps come off so two of the plates slide off.

Most of the time, the guy crashes if something like that happens. This dude is so strong, that he recovers on one leg, finishes the squat and puts it back. So we have plenty of weights, but I had to order special bars, which finally made it to campus on Wednesday, that I’m going to have to use when he squats because we don’t have bars long enough to slide all the weight on. We don’t know what he can one-rep max, because we go up to 600, 700 pounds and he is still just repping. But we can’t get enough weight on the bars to figure out his max, so we just put all the weight we can on it and let him rep.

Daylon is absolutely the strongest guy I’ve coached as an incoming freshman."

It sounds like Dumptruck Daylon is physically ready to contribute this year. We've needed that sort of size and power and aggression on the DL for awhile. Gonna be nice to have a kickass defensive tackle.