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.