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AJ McCarron explains how 2009 Alabama summer workouts ‘ruined’ peanut butter for him

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Coming out of high school, AJ McCarron was a tall and relatively skinny quarterback, but then he met then-strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran.

Cochran had his ways of getting all of his players to the desired build. In 2009, McCarron went into summer workouts and learned of a camp designed for the linemen.

“I was skinnier,” McCarron said on The Dynasty: A Podcast on the Alabama Crimson Tide. “Coming out of high school, I was 6-3, 180 pounds. I remember the big boys having what they called fat camp. They’d go in early morning, 6 a.