Where Are They Now? DT Hollis Thomas

Some nicknames just don’t fit. But Hollis Thomas and Tank? C’mon, that could easily have been on his birth certificate.

A 6-foot, 300-pound defensive tackle, Thomas came out of Northern Illinois, a small Division 1 program, in 1996 with a goal to play in the NFL. Scouts, however, weren’t showing up on campus armed with clipboards and stopwatches.

Thomas solved that problem with a plan and postage stamps.

“My agent at the time said, ‘Put a little highlight reel together and send it to all 30 teams,’” Thomas said. “I got the audio-visual department to make me one. It wasn’t too long and it wasn’t too short. I want to say six or seven minutes. I was just trying to give them pretty much a…