Juco experience benefiting LB Orisakwe 

At 6-foot and 215 pounds, outside linebacker Steve Orisakwe (Corsicana, Texas/Navarro College) isn’t the biggest linebacker. Put him in the weight room, however, and he’s competing with the big boys.

Orisawke holds the team record for skill-position players in the squat. Few guys his size -- or any size, for that matter -- can say they have squatted 675 pounds.

“When I squatted the first time, I was about 5-9 and 170 pounds. I think I squatted 400 pounds,” Orisakwe said. “My coaches were saying that something’s not right about that. At first, I didn’t really like the weight room, but I started to like lifting more and more. Since I’m an undersized linebacker, I feel that’s the only way to get an upper hand in being faster and stronger.”

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