Lorenzen probably won’t go down as a Giants’ legend — playing behind one of the NFL’s ultimate iron men will do that — but that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t had an effect on many. Author Tommy Tomlinson shared how he Lorenzen helped inspire him as a writer and in his weight loss journey.
I wanted to write about Jared because I was afraid to write my own story. Jared was known as the biggest quarterback anyone had ever seen; he often played at more than 300 pounds, and by the time I met him, he was somewhere about 400.