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The Lass Word: If Looks Could Kill...

Green Bay’s first round draft pick. edge rusher Lukas Van Ness, is going to be popular with the ladies. Clean cut, all American boyish face, wavy reddish blonde hair, and a chiseled body that looks like, well, like Hercules. Which just happens to be the nickname he was labeled with in college at Iowa.

“I got the nickname from a couple of teammates my freshman year when I came in” he told packers.com. “One of my older teammates, Noah Shannon, mentioned that my body physique, and the way I looked, represented Hercules, and the name stuck in the building, and it has followed me since.