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Very cool story regarding this Canuck's journey to the Senior Bowl and hopefully an NFL roster (video of him in the link is fun).
NFL draft: Meet the D-III prospect (with exposed belly and broken hand) stealing the Senior Bowl show (yahoo.com)
If you didn’t know the name Quinn Meinerz entering Senior Bowl week, you’re more than forgiven. By now, the word is very much out on one of the most surprising performers at the most important pre-NFL draft event.
One reason you might not have heard of Meinerz is that he played his college football at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Another is that he didn’t play last season.
With the cancellation of sub-FBS football in 2020, the UWW offensive lineman named D-III All-American and his team’s MVP in 2019 was robbed of a senior season. He was forced to do whatever he could without a season to earn attention and improve as an NFL prospect — while social distancing, naturally, and, for a while anyway, do so without a gym.
This is a man who is used to taking it to an extreme, spending most past summers working out alone in a remote part of Canada, where he had only one hour per day of internet access. It was there the 6-foot-3 1/4, 320-pound Meinerz underwent his annual “Rocky IV”-like regimen of clearing brush, rolling 400-pound fuel tanks and clearing trees.
NFL draft: Meet the D-III prospect (with exposed belly and broken hand) stealing the Senior Bowl show (yahoo.com)
If you didn’t know the name Quinn Meinerz entering Senior Bowl week, you’re more than forgiven. By now, the word is very much out on one of the most surprising performers at the most important pre-NFL draft event.
One reason you might not have heard of Meinerz is that he played his college football at Wisconsin-Whitewater. Another is that he didn’t play last season.
With the cancellation of sub-FBS football in 2020, the UWW offensive lineman named D-III All-American and his team’s MVP in 2019 was robbed of a senior season. He was forced to do whatever he could without a season to earn attention and improve as an NFL prospect — while social distancing, naturally, and, for a while anyway, do so without a gym.
This is a man who is used to taking it to an extreme, spending most past summers working out alone in a remote part of Canada, where he had only one hour per day of internet access. It was there the 6-foot-3 1/4, 320-pound Meinerz underwent his annual “Rocky IV”-like regimen of clearing brush, rolling 400-pound fuel tanks and clearing trees.
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