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Running back Eddie Lacy has gotten down to the 245 pounds that the Seattle Seahawks set as his optimum weight. But to his trolls and critics on social media, Lacy can never be slim enough.

"I could pull up my Twitter right now and there would be a fat comment in there somewhere," Lacy told Keith Van Valkenburg of ESPN The Magazine. "Like I could tweet, 'Today is a beautiful day!' and someone would be like, 'Oh yeah? You fat.' I sit there and wonder, 'What do you get out of that?'"

For ESPN The Magazine's Oct.