Alex Redmond

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(11-30-2018, 06:31 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't think every team in the league uses that as a way to judge players.  Must have been something else.  Like him being sloppy and out of shape.

Here you go.  

Quote:The passed-over — and nearly forgotten — superstar.

It was near the end of that season that Mathis got an idea that would eventually change his career. In December of that year, Mathis was set to open a workout facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. “I was bored out of my mind [in Cincinnati],” Mathis says. “We were getting ready to open Zone in December of that year and I got the idea to make an impactful testimonial for the gym.” The testimonial would come in the form of an eight-week transformational workout program, starting in mid-January. In order to accentuate the change, Mathis spent the final few weeks of the season and the two after it putting on as much bad weight as possible. By March, Mathis claimed he’d lost 22 pounds and dropped his body fat by 10 percentage points. “For the next eight weeks I ate exactly what I was supposed to and worked my ass off with my trainer, Garrett Shinoskie,” Mathis says. “I was a free agent going into the lockout at that time, and not only did I want to show what Zone could do, I wanted to get ready to win a starting job wherever I landed.”

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/all-22-all-star-team-the-late-blooming-evan-mathis/