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per Dodd:
The biggest player in college football doesn't have much to say about the subject of being the biggest player in college football.
At 6-feet-9 and 400 pounds, Daniel Faalele fills a jersey and pads like no other. Offered a scholarship before he ever saw a football field and getting the chance to start as a freshman at Minnesota, his soaring arc shouts how the game values size and potential. Not necessarily in that order.
Recruited out of Australia with only two years of playing experience at a U.S. high school, Faalele became All-Big Ten honorable mention right tackle in 2018.
At this point, it's best to let others speak for those accomplishments.
"I offered him first," boasted Chris Naoele, then the offensive line coach at Hawaii. "When you see the size of him. it's like, 'Are you for real?' He was like a big mountain."
"It's like the bearded lady," said Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck. "It's like, wow, you're going to pay to see her."
"He's a cool dude to be around," Minnesota wide receiver Tyler Johnson said. "He's funny. He's huge. I don't know if he gets questions like that, 'How is the air up there?'"
Asked how his mighty frame might rise up when he becomes enraged, Faalele simply says, "It's just a mindset. I'm not really mad. It's just a mindset. I'm just going to dominate you."
There is no official standard by which Faalele is the game's biggest player. But what other player do you know who wears size 18 shoes, whose head seems bigger than his helmet, and who stands a head bigger than of his offensive line teammates (typically the largest players on the field)?
But he is more than that bearded lady, that circus act. Four years ago at age 16, Faalele walked into Conquest Athletic Performance in Melbourne, Australia, to rehab from a basketball injury with head of performance David Tuinauvai, who ended up training him.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ootball-is-just-now-learning-how-to-dominate/
Go Gophers!!
The biggest player in college football doesn't have much to say about the subject of being the biggest player in college football.
At 6-feet-9 and 400 pounds, Daniel Faalele fills a jersey and pads like no other. Offered a scholarship before he ever saw a football field and getting the chance to start as a freshman at Minnesota, his soaring arc shouts how the game values size and potential. Not necessarily in that order.
Recruited out of Australia with only two years of playing experience at a U.S. high school, Faalele became All-Big Ten honorable mention right tackle in 2018.
At this point, it's best to let others speak for those accomplishments.
"I offered him first," boasted Chris Naoele, then the offensive line coach at Hawaii. "When you see the size of him. it's like, 'Are you for real?' He was like a big mountain."
"It's like the bearded lady," said Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck. "It's like, wow, you're going to pay to see her."
"He's a cool dude to be around," Minnesota wide receiver Tyler Johnson said. "He's funny. He's huge. I don't know if he gets questions like that, 'How is the air up there?'"
Asked how his mighty frame might rise up when he becomes enraged, Faalele simply says, "It's just a mindset. I'm not really mad. It's just a mindset. I'm just going to dominate you."
There is no official standard by which Faalele is the game's biggest player. But what other player do you know who wears size 18 shoes, whose head seems bigger than his helmet, and who stands a head bigger than of his offensive line teammates (typically the largest players on the field)?
But he is more than that bearded lady, that circus act. Four years ago at age 16, Faalele walked into Conquest Athletic Performance in Melbourne, Australia, to rehab from a basketball injury with head of performance David Tuinauvai, who ended up training him.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ootball-is-just-now-learning-how-to-dominate/
Go Gophers!!