This guy is the Hulk
Yeah, but can he play football?
He sat out last year. Still, BYU officials decided big Scott Young would be one of two players to represent the Cougars at the Mountain West Conference meetings in Las Vegas more than a week ago.
Why? Well, he's a senior on a young offense. But perhaps equally so, he fills out a T-shirt like Hellboy or the Incredible Hulk. Young is a specimen. And if Adonis looks counted for something in a preseason show, why not trot out Atlas Junior.
Young, a former Dixie State College All-American defensive tackle, played one season as at that position for the Cougars, then switched to offensive guard, sitting out 2003 to learn that position.
Young is the strongest man on BYU's football team. By research in Las Vegas, he is the strongest football player in the Mountain West Conference.
But can he play football as a pass protector for Gary Crowton in 2004, his last hurrah?
The 6-foot-5, 312-pound Young opened a lot of eyes this year when he benched 530 pounds. He can clean 378 pounds. The clean is a full-body lift. You bend down and pick up the bar with weights and fling it up, catching it about chest to head level and hoist it over your head.
"Scott could probably clean over 400 pounds if he improved his technique," BYU assistant conditioning coach Justin McClure said. "But he's only been doing that lift for two years."
McClure believes there are only a handful of college football players who can bench over 500 pounds. "Scott is definitely one of the strongest in the country, no doubt."
For the second-straight year, Young is by far BYU's strongest man.
Young took the NFL 225-pound lift up and over his head 53 times.
That is freaksville. I cannot find a record of an NFL Combine participant who has gone over 50 repetitions.
Yeah, but can he play football?
He sat out last year. Still, BYU officials decided big Scott Young would be one of two players to represent the Cougars at the Mountain West Conference meetings in Las Vegas more than a week ago.
Why? Well, he's a senior on a young offense. But perhaps equally so, he fills out a T-shirt like Hellboy or the Incredible Hulk. Young is a specimen. And if Adonis looks counted for something in a preseason show, why not trot out Atlas Junior.
Young, a former Dixie State College All-American defensive tackle, played one season as at that position for the Cougars, then switched to offensive guard, sitting out 2003 to learn that position.
Young is the strongest man on BYU's football team. By research in Las Vegas, he is the strongest football player in the Mountain West Conference.
But can he play football as a pass protector for Gary Crowton in 2004, his last hurrah?
The 6-foot-5, 312-pound Young opened a lot of eyes this year when he benched 530 pounds. He can clean 378 pounds. The clean is a full-body lift. You bend down and pick up the bar with weights and fling it up, catching it about chest to head level and hoist it over your head.
"Scott could probably clean over 400 pounds if he improved his technique," BYU assistant conditioning coach Justin McClure said. "But he's only been doing that lift for two years."
McClure believes there are only a handful of college football players who can bench over 500 pounds. "Scott is definitely one of the strongest in the country, no doubt."
For the second-straight year, Young is by far BYU's strongest man.
Young took the NFL 225-pound lift up and over his head 53 times.
That is freaksville. I cannot find a record of an NFL Combine participant who has gone over 50 repetitions.
