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This school year, wide receiver Rashod Bateman is rooming with three teammates who also joined the Gophers last season: quarterback Zack Annexstad and offensive linemen Daniel Faalele and Curtis Dunlap Jr.
Considering Annexstad and Bateman’s combined weight is only one book-stuffed backpack more than Faalele alone, Bateman’s feeling pretty comfortable with his surroundings.
“We’ll be well-protected,” joked Bateman, a 6-2 Georgia native who set freshman records while starting every game last season.
While it’s in offensive linemen’s nature to guard their teammates, Bateman shouldn’t overlook his own contribution to defending their home, should the place somehow come under siege. Gophers coach P.J. Fleck has touted the sophomore’s physical transformation all offseason.
Bateman said when he arrived on campus a year ago, he weighed 173 pounds. The roster currently lists him at 210 pounds, though he put himself more around 201 pounds at the start of camp.
How he managed to put on about 30 pounds was a pretty simple formula: stay in the weight room, rework his diet. The latter was what he had to change “a lot.”
“I wasn’t eating too healthy before,” Bateman said. “Just, like, a lot of fried food. I never ate salad.”
Greens and protein shakes seem to be the substitutes now for Bateman’s crunchy cravings. And it has Fleck, a former receiver himself, fired up for a follow-up to a strong freshman campaign, when Bateman set first-year school records of 51 catches and 704 receiving yards, along with his six touchdowns. Paired with then-junior receiver Tyler Johnson, the Gophers receiving corps has engineered much hype for 2019.
“Everybody talks about Tyler, but we’re talking about — Rashod Bateman set every Minnesota freshman record there was, and now he’s 200 pounds,” Fleck said. “And you’re talking about maybe one of the best and most-prolific wide receivers in the country [in Johnson, who’s] going to be just like Corey Davis was. They have very similar skill sets.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...-on-record-setting-freshman-season/542917352/
Go Gophers!!
This school year, wide receiver Rashod Bateman is rooming with three teammates who also joined the Gophers last season: quarterback Zack Annexstad and offensive linemen Daniel Faalele and Curtis Dunlap Jr.
Considering Annexstad and Bateman’s combined weight is only one book-stuffed backpack more than Faalele alone, Bateman’s feeling pretty comfortable with his surroundings.
“We’ll be well-protected,” joked Bateman, a 6-2 Georgia native who set freshman records while starting every game last season.
While it’s in offensive linemen’s nature to guard their teammates, Bateman shouldn’t overlook his own contribution to defending their home, should the place somehow come under siege. Gophers coach P.J. Fleck has touted the sophomore’s physical transformation all offseason.
Bateman said when he arrived on campus a year ago, he weighed 173 pounds. The roster currently lists him at 210 pounds, though he put himself more around 201 pounds at the start of camp.
How he managed to put on about 30 pounds was a pretty simple formula: stay in the weight room, rework his diet. The latter was what he had to change “a lot.”
“I wasn’t eating too healthy before,” Bateman said. “Just, like, a lot of fried food. I never ate salad.”
Greens and protein shakes seem to be the substitutes now for Bateman’s crunchy cravings. And it has Fleck, a former receiver himself, fired up for a follow-up to a strong freshman campaign, when Bateman set first-year school records of 51 catches and 704 receiving yards, along with his six touchdowns. Paired with then-junior receiver Tyler Johnson, the Gophers receiving corps has engineered much hype for 2019.
“Everybody talks about Tyler, but we’re talking about — Rashod Bateman set every Minnesota freshman record there was, and now he’s 200 pounds,” Fleck said. “And you’re talking about maybe one of the best and most-prolific wide receivers in the country [in Johnson, who’s] going to be just like Corey Davis was. They have very similar skill sets.”
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...-on-record-setting-freshman-season/542917352/
Go Gophers!!