Before he would become a spring-game sensation in April, before he would be a bona fide member of the offensive two-deep depth chart, Oklahoma tight end Mark Andrews needed to be saved.
At 6'6" and 247 pounds, Andrews is a 19-year-old in a man's body—a body that had gone completely limp one afternoon last September. He lay on his bed, his eyes, usually full of expression and light, fixated straight ahead, yet not on anything at all. His body was motionless, an immovable mass.
He was lifeless.
That's 247 pounds of dead weight, which someone had to prop up in his dorm room in Headington Hall.