Terna Nande calls it an 'honor' to be the first No. 1 Freak on Bruce Feldman's list, especially as a mid-major player.
, the X-man, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound freshman who had run one of the fastest 200-meter times in the world. My No. 1, though, came from the smallest program of the group. He was a 235-pound linebacker from Miami-Ohio named Terna Nande.His strength coach, Dan Dalrymple, told me stories that I thought were downright Bunyanesque.
Nande didn’t break the combine bench record but he was credited with 41 reps — a remarkable number, especially for a non-linemen. He vertical jumped 39 inches and ran a 4.51 40 and a 4.11 shuttle. The Titans drafted him in the fifth round in 2006. For years, I thought about catching up with him, seeing as he was essentially the inspiration for the thing I’m probably best known for.
, a team captain, working out with Nande. Dalrymple had his guys doing squats and he was standing on the far end of nine power racks when he heard a loud“I run down here and I see Terrell laying on the ground — ‘Oh my gosh what happened?’ he said. I realized when I got to him, he’s laughing and I see all these weights are on the ground. The bar’s caught in the rack.”
I’d always wondered if Nande even knew he was named the No. 1 Freak on some college football blog. After all, this was back in the pre-Twitter days , and it was behind a paywall.“Coach Dalrymple always did a good job of announcing those types of achievements,” he said. “He was proud of the work he put in implementing a great weight room and offseason workout program.
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