Jared Lorenzen Chimes In On Jameis Winston's Weight

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"You’re not outrunning people. You still got to have your quick feet. You still got to have your mobility, quick arm release, all that. But I don’t think being big at the quarterback position is a bad thing. I was talking to some people earlier: Name me the last big quarterback that got hurt. You look around the league, all these skinny guys that can run around – RG3 – all these guys are always hurt. The big guys are used to it. We can take the pounding. We can take what it’s like to play 16 to 20 games a season. …

"… Everybody goes back to the famous picture of Tom Brady when they saw him (when he was a sixth-rounder). By no means is (Winston) going to be Tom Brady, but by no means is he JaMarcus Russell, either. He’s not me. He doesn’t look that big. He’s just a big guy. If I had any advice to give to him, I would say everybody that’s talking right now, just block it out unless it’s your agent or the Tampa Bay Bucs—because that’s all that matters right now."

“I don’t think that what he’s doing right now is anything crazy,” Lorenzen said. “I don’t think he’s 30 pounds overweight and not working out and all that. I just think he’s a little bit bigger. Nothing crazy. Like you’re saying, there’s going to be a spotlight on him because he’s going to be the No. 1 overall pick. He’s just got to block as much out of that as he can. I thought he had a pretty good pro day. He threw over 100 passes, completed over 90 of them. Yes you would expect that at a pro day, but he’s just got to do what he’s got to do to make Tampa Bay happy.

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