Even Rutgers linebacker Steve Longa couldn’t believe his own numbers.
The redshirt junior is second in the nation with 85 tackles. But when a classmate congratulated him on that fact Monday, Longa just nodded politely and ignored it. He didn’t think he actually had that many.
“Yeah, I didn’t believe him,” Longa said with a laugh. “I was polite about it. I didn’t tell him, ‘No, get out of here. You’re lying.’ But then a couple reporters brought it up and asked me how I felt about it, and that’s when I knew it was true.