The average weight of the players Arizona started at the two interior defensive line positions last season was 286.7 pounds. That would be slightly above the weight of the smallest candidate for the planned rotation at defensive and nose tackle this season.
Six of the top seven DT/NT contenders weigh in at over 300 pounds, topped by the 330 that Indiana transfer Sio Nofoagatoto’a carries on his 6-foot-3 frame. There’s also 6-6, 325-pound Georgia transfer Bill Norton, 6-5, 315-pound UCLA transfer Tyler Manoa and 6-5, 300-pound JUCO transfer Keanu Mailoto, all of whom were brought in this offseason to help shore up one of the Wildcats’ most glaring issues a year ago: run defense.