Defensive Line
Football Lineman Workout: Front Squat to Press
Most sports require the ability to push into the ground with your feet and express force with your upper body. This skill however, may not be more...
Elite Lineman Training Guide: Bodyweight Exercises
Football games are won in the trenches. For a lineman to control the line of scrimmage, he must first successfully control his own body. The following 8...
Football Defensive Schemes: The Basics You Should Know
Calling a defense is one of the greatest challenges in football. Game plans are based entirely on prediction—predicting what formations an offense will line up in, what sort of personnel [...]
The Perfect Storm: How Quinnen Williams Became a Generational Talent
How does a player go from college back-up to potential No. 1 overall pick in under a year? It takes a perfect storm. For Quinnen Williams, that’s what 2018 was. [...]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers DE Noah Spence Consumed 9,000 Calories a Day This Offseason
Entering his third year in the NFL, Noah Spence was committed to becoming a more complete player. As a defensive end, he wanted to transform his body into one that [...]
Houston’s Ed Oliver May Be College Football’s Most Athletic DT Ever
I don't know how you block Ed Oliver. I'm not sure anyone does. A 6-foot-3, 290-pound rising junior defensive tackle for the University of Houston, Oliver was a first-team All-American [...]
Watch 336-Pound Wisconsin Nose Tackle Olive Sagapolu Do a Perfect Backflip
Think of some notable nose tackles in the NFL. Danny Shelton. Vince Wilfork. Haloti Ngata. All enormous, and all probably incapable of doing a backflip. They eat eat up offensive [...]
With a Lightning-Quick First Step, Mo Hurst Is Ready to Disrupt the NFL
Mo Hurst is a blur. As he gets into his stance, he coils up 292 pounds of energy. With his eyes trained on the football, he itches to unleash it. [...]
How Harrison Phillips Built One of the Most Impressive Bench Presses in NFL History
When Harrison Phillips put up 42 reps on the Bench Press at the 2018 NFL Combine, he joined an exclusive club. Since 1998, only eighteen men have managed to eclipse [...]
Meet Vita Vea: The Freakish 347-Pound Defensive Tackle Ready to Ruin Your Game Plan
Imagine a football player. Got it? Now, imagine him bigger. Like 6-foot-4, 347 pounds big. Now imagine he can Bench Press 225 pounds for over 40 consecutive reps. Not impossible [...]