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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3942057, member: 27"]
I looked closely at Ellis at the open practice.

Yes, he has a small gut but it is a minor part of the weight he carries.  He does not have the pear shape a lot of 350 pound players his age have (like say Qadir White).

Ellis has a massive frame.  His shoulder and hips are astonishing broad.  He is so wide and his torso is just massive.  All the way from the top of the shoulders to his butt.

He looks fundamentally different from all the other oversized OL and DL on the team.  He is like a different species of human.

The last time I felt like this about a new SU football player was the first time I saw Blake Bednarz.  Blake was a massive OL from the Buffalo area who played at SU in the mid to late 1980s.

At the time, most of our OL were in the 6'3, 275 range.  Blake, even as a true frosh, was more like 6'5 310.  And like Ellis, he didn't have much of a gut.  He was super broad, naturally strong, barely had a neck and heck, his head was square shaped.

He was just our first true jumbo next generation OL.

Ellis is the generation after.

I don't know if he is going to be a factor right away (I believe Blake ended up starting as a true frosh; he had a great career at Syracuse).  But based on appearance only, OMG, he is going to be a force to be reckoned with.
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