5* Freshman Daylon Mack requires special bars.

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"He had 600 pounds on the bar plus the (66-pound) chains so that’s all that can fit on the bar," Jackson said. "We thought we had it on there secure...but the clamp falls off and two of the plates slide off.

"This dude is so strong that the one leg of his recovers, he stands out with the bar and just finishes the squat and put it back."

The episode actually caused Jackson to have to special order different bars to allow Mack to squat.

'We have plenty of weights for him to lift...I guess what I didn’t anticipate – we use the standard bars that they use in all weight rooms," he said.

"I had to order special bars which finally made it to campus this week, 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.

"We really don’t know what he can max one rep. We go up to six (or) seven hundred pounds and he’s still just repping. We can’t get enough weight on the bars to figure out what he can do for about a one- or two-rep max. We just put as much weight as we can get on the bar and just have him start doing reps."

Jackson had compliments for veterans such as Myles Garrett and Brandon Williams but he had a lot of good things to say about the true freshmen in general.

"You’ve got a lot of guys, they don’t talk a lot," he said. "They come in and they put in work. They know what they came in for, they know what league they’re playing in…They’ve got a serious, hungry look."

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