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Bobby Wagner Can See into the Future

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Watching Bobby Wagner play, the first thing you might notice is his speed. That swiftness, once clocked at sub-4.5 seconds in the 40-yard dash, makes him a sideline-to-sideline nightmare for running backs and once prompted the venerable Frank Gore to say, “Bobby, man, he's f—— fast as f—.”

But the Seahawks' middle linebacker—who has surpassed 100 tackles in each of his five NFL seasons, and last year made a franchise-record 167 stops—views his athletic ability as a mere complement to the most important aspect of his game.

“Ninety percent,” Wagner says, “is mental.”

That may seem like a stunningly large percentage for a physical game, until you hear Wagner describe how he does his job.