NFL prospect Desmond Watson, who weighs 464 pounds, looking to turn life around to make it in NFL

Desmond Watson would marque NFL past arsenic the heaviest imaginable to beryllium taken successful the draught if helium gets selected adjacent week successful Green Bay. 

But the Florida Gators merchandise knows 464 pounds isn’t conducive to a agelong NFL career, adjacent astatine 6-foot-6.

Watson was asked by Fox Sports what helium was doing to shed value earlier entering the league, and helium knows wherever to start. 

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Florida antiaircraft lineman Desmond Watson performs a drill during the school's NFL shot pro time March 27, 2025, successful Gainesville, Fla.  (AP Photo/John Raoux)

"Stopping portion driving," Watson responded. "My biggest happening is support going, get to wherever I request to get. There are stores and a batch of temptations. That’s helped maine immensely. Don’t spell wrong the state station. Pay astatine the pump. Because, inside, it’s snacks and each types of things similar that. Don’t propulsion over. If you’re connected the highway, enactment connected the road until you get wherever you’ve got to go."

Watson turned heads erstwhile helium walked onto field successful Gainesville astatine 385 pounds successful 2021. Four years later, he’s astir 80 pounds heavier than the existent heaviest subordinate successful the NFL, Baltimore Ravens lineman Daniel Faalele, who was listed astatine 380 pounds past season. 

Weight nonaccomplishment has been thing brought up with the Gators’ program, but Watson has continued to summation it since stepping ft connected campus. 

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"It’s been similar my aforesaid occupation — not occupation — but my aforesaid interest passim college," helium said. "I’m getting much in-depth, getting a amended grasp of the things I request to bash to beryllium palmy astatine the adjacent level. It’s been interesting. I’ve learned a batch astir myself successful this process."

Watson said radical successful his beingness person taught him to dainty his eating habits similar "another addiction."

Florida Gators antiaircraft lineman Desmond Watson (21) tackles Tulane Green Wave backmost Ty Thompson (7) during the archetypal fractional astatine Raymond James Stadium successful Tampa, Fla., Dec. 20, 2024, successful the 2024 Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl.  (Doug Engle/Gainesville Sun)

And helium knows conscionable however superior it tin get. 

"It’s not drugs, but it’s addicting, whether that’s gaming, drugs, alcohol. I deliberation this is my vice. I’m conscionable trying to get a clasp of it. Just similar drugs tin termination you, this tin bash the aforesaid thing. I’m trying to alteration my life." 

While Watson’s value whitethorn beryllium a origin of interest for NFL teams, the imaginable is surely determination for the Gators' antiaircraft tackle who benched 225 pounds 36 times. It would’ve been the highest full of reps astatine the NFL Scouting Combine if Watson had been invited. 

Florida Gators antiaircraft lineman Desmond Watson walks connected the tract during Gator Walk astatine the Orange and Blue outpouring shot crippled astatine Steve Spurrier Field astatine Ben Hill Griffin Stadium successful Gainesville, Fla., April 13, 2024. (Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun)

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Instead, helium showcased his powerfulness and different skills to NFL teams astatine Florida’s Pro Day, which included a 25-inch vertical leap and a 5.93-second 40-yard dash. 

If helium is drafted, Watson is expected to spell successful the aboriginal rounds successful Green Bay. 

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