A few things stood out to Kevin Sumlin at the Arizona Wildcats’ first day of practice—the energy, the new faces, and the sheer amount of size on the roster.
The Wildcats were laughably thin on both lines during the spring (and last fall, for that matter), but they added several big bodies during the offseason to remedy their dearth of girth.
“We need it and it was no secret because everybody was worried about how many d-linemen we had,” said Sumlin, whose team finished 10th in the Pac-12 in both yards and points allowed per game last season.