ESPN the Magazine’s popular body issue goes on sale at newsstands soon. Featured within the issue are Indianapolis Colts offensive linemen Todd Herremans, Jack Mewhort and Anthony Castonzo.
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In the interview portion of the issue, the trio was asked a variety of questions including this one:
Have you always been big?
Herremans, who stands 6-foot-6 and weighs in at 321 pounds, stated this in his response:
“I was always pretty pudgy … probably a little pudgier than what you’d call “baby fat” [laughs]. When I first started playing football in seventh and eighth grade, there was a weight limit, and I always had to wear a “T” on my helmet because I was overweight; it meant I had to play in between the tackles. I couldn’t catch the ball even if it was thrown directly to me. I just had to sit in there and take up space, even at that level. I was forced to be a lineman at a young age.”
Herremans is new to the Colts after spending 10 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Mewhort, who is 6-foot-6 and weighs 309 pounds, responded to the size question with this:
“I was always bigger. Going into high school, I think I was like 5-foot-9, 190. Then I hit my growth spurt. That’s why when I got this call [to be in the Body Issue], I was like, “They want to see me naked?” I thought I was getting punked.”
Mewhort was a second-round pick of the Colts from the 2014 NFL draft.
Castonzo was drafted by the Colts in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft. He is 6-foot-7 and weighs 305 pounds. Not always a big guy, Costonzo answered with this regarding his size:
“I kind of went through waves. When I was in fourth grade, I was playing tackle football with the eighth-graders because of my size. But there are pictures of me in high school where I literally looked like a capital L — I had such gigantic feet and I was so tall and so skinny that just standing there, I looked like a capital L. Then I gained a bunch of weight after high school. I was a real late developer.”
While it would be extremely difficult not to notice these three guys out in public, Castonzo admitted that quarterback Andrew Luck steals the show:
“People immediately notice. It’s hard to go incognito anywhere as a group. But if we go out, Andrew [Luck], he takes all that [attention], because people don’t care about us when we’re out with him. It’s kind of nice [laughs].”
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I’m sure if the guys went out like this, they would certainly be paid plenty of attention.
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