"Marquis Spruill is a freak. Or at least an honorable mention one. Either way it bodes well for Syracuse. Spruill just missed the cut for CBS college football writer Bruce Feldman's annual physical "Freaks" top 20 list
when it was released in late May, but the mention puts him in prestigious company.He has all the measurable that put him in that class," Hicks said. " He just doesn't have anything unusual, like Shamarko Thomas working out at 1 a.m. He barely missed the cut. When you look at the list, everyone has that one thing that stands out."Spruill, a 6-foot-1, 224-pound linebacker, runs the 40-yard dash in 4.52 seconds and owns a 37 1/2-inch vertical jump. He
hang cleans 385 pounds (a number Hicks says will rise the next time the Orange test for maximum weight) and bench presses 405 pounds.
"He's gotten bigger, stronger, progressed," Hicks said. "He's become a leader. He does some stuff on his own. I'd like to say I'm so good that they do what I have on the sheet and this is how it works out, but the truth is that the guys that take it a little further than everyone else, they get the payoff."
