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Is Hercules Mata’afa the Real Deal at Defensive Tackle?

It all started a month ago, first with this tweet:

“He’s kinda been the surprise of the camp to be honest with you. Players are talking about him. He’s a guy that’s up to 275 now... he can get out of the chutes without raising up at all.. he’s been very difficult to block, he’s very active - you know I think he led college football in tackles for loss... Pac-10 [sic] defensive player of the year coming out...

So, now we had a kid when I was in Cincinnati named Geno Atkins who came in there and we were like in OTAs and one of the quarterbacks came up to me and says, ‘do you think can he do this when we get pads on and stuff?