'19 GA OLB Roman Harrison (Tennessee signee)

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Coach Punk said:
Full-time end would be like 280+. But I keep thinking he gets to 260ish and plays that 90% pass rush type linebacker. He reminds me so much of Courtney Upshaw it’s not funny.
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He is probably already around that 260 range if he was 252. So he should be that guy this year.
 
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engineerVOL said:
He looks 230. But cut up something fierce.
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Yeah I’d be really surprised if he plays his freshman year at 260. He looks like he has the frame for it, but I’m not sure he puts on that much muscle in one offseason.


Plus it seemed like the staff tried to get most of our OLBs in that 245-250 range last season (DT and Kongbo both dropped down from where they were weight wise in 2017), so I’m not sure they’ll peg that as a good weight for him anyway.
 
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Darth_Shiveman said:
Yeah I’d be really surprised if he plays his freshman year at 260. He looks like he has the frame for it, but I’m not sure he puts on that much muscle in one offseason.


Plus it seemed like the staff tried to get most of our OLBs in that 245-250 range last season (DT and Kongbo both dropped down from where they were weight wise in 2017), so I’m not sure they’ll peg that as a good weight for him anyway.
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He played at 260 as a senior at nose tackle. He will be fine to play at 260 as an olb. He doesn't even need to add weight. Just needs to learn the position he should've been playing all along if he wasn't the biggest kid on his team. The video above where he looks smaller is not recently taken per the throwback caption.
 
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Why not move him inside to DT during passing downs? IE Brandon Graham

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Sleegro said:
He played at 260 as a senior at nose tackle. He will be fine to play at 260 as an olb. He doesn't even need to add weight. Just needs to learn the position he should've been playing all along if he wasn't the biggest kid on his team. The video above where he looks smaller is not recently taken per the throwback caption.
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He doesn’t look 260 at all to me. Not that it matters.
 
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I haven't been this excited about TN football since Fulmer was fired. Good stuff. Can't wait to see some of these new guys on the field.
 
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It was said when he committed that they wanted to put 30+ on him and get him to 270-280, but needs changed and for the foreseeable future they want him right around where he is and to be OLB. 240-250
 
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I read somewhere that he fluctuated between 238 and 242 during the season. He looks leaner than Crouch (who officially weighed 238), but he is 2+ inches taller. Harrison has literally 2% body fat
 
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BigorangeBoy said:
I read somewhere that he fluctuated between 238 and 242 during the season. He looks leaner than Crouch (who officially weighed 238), but he is 2+ inches taller. Harrison has literally 2% body fat
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Harrison is very lean, but I'd say he's probably around 8-10 percent BF if I had to guess. But there's no way he's 2% body fat.

Competition level body builders may diet down to 4%-5% when they are entering a show. This isn't sustainable long term due to the enormous strain it puts on the body's endocrine system, and once you start getting under 7 or 8 percent BF, athletic performance will begin to suffer greatly.
 
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GoVolsDR said:
Harrison is very lean, but I'd say he's probably around 8-10 percent BF if I had to guess. But there's no way he's 2% body fat.

Competition level body builders may diet down to 4%-5% when they are entering a show. This isn't sustainable long term due to the enormous strain it puts on the body's endocrine system, and once you start getting under 7 or 8 percent BF, athletic performance will begin to suffer greatly.
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I naturally sit at less than 4% BF, and I have all of my post-pubescent life. Athletic performance and strength have never suffered on account of this.
 
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VolunteerVandiver said:
I naturally sit at less than 4% BF, and I have all of my post-pubescent life. Athletic performance and strength have never suffered on account of this.
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Then you are an extreme outlier. Like most things there isn't one hard and fast rule that everyone in the world subscribes to or believes in but conventional wisdom usually categorizes less than 8% as being "underfat" and less than 5% as unsustainable.
 
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NochNoch said:
Then you are an extreme outlier. Like most things there isn't one hard and fast rule that everyone in the world subscribes to or believes in but conventional wisdom usually categorizes less than 8% as being "underfat" and less than 5% as unsustainable.
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BMR is >3600 calories and my testosterone is high, so I am probably an outlier, but Harrison seems like an outlier as well haha.
 
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VolunteerVandiver said:
I naturally sit at less than 4% BF, and I have all of my post-pubescent life. Athletic performance and strength have never suffered on account of this.
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Unless you’ve been measured via air or possibly water displacement methods there is no way of really knowing this. Highly unlikely.
 
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GoVolsDR said:
Harrison is very lean, but I'd say he's probably around 8-10 percent BF if I had to guess. But there's no way he's 2% body fat.

Competition level body builders may diet down to 4%-5% when they are entering a show. This isn't sustainable long term due to the enormous strain it puts on the body's endocrine system, and once you start getting under 7 or 8 percent BF, athletic performance will begin to suffer greatly.
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Sorry, did not use the blue font - he would not be alive at 2%
 
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OHvol40 said:
Unless you’ve been measured via air or possibly water displacement methods there is no way of really knowing this. Highly unlikely.
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BIA didn't register, then I've had my physician, as well as a personal trainer, estimate it with skin calipers. So no, I have never had it measured via displacement.
 
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Sleegro said:
He played at 260 as a senior at nose tackle. He will be fine to play at 260 as an olb. He doesn't even need to add weight. Just needs to learn the position he should've been playing all along if he wasn't the biggest kid on his team. The video above where he looks smaller is not recently taken per the throwback caption.
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Guys are always listed as bigger than they are in HS. He doesn’t look 260 at all in any pics, recently taken or not.
 
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