In a game filled with bashing and brawling, being the biggest, strongest and fastest is critical on the gridiron. Those attributes however, don’t concern the 215-pound, 6-foot-4-inch Stanley Lambert. For the freshman linebacker, it’s what is above the shoulders he knows he needs to strengthen.
“I’m going to grow a lot mentally and physically,” Lambert said. “Right now, I’m strong enough physically. But mentally sometimes whenever I start to mess up, I breakdown a little bit. I’m just learning how to brush that off.”
Every practice this far in the fall, the group of linebackers used for the first and second team have constantly rotated.