When Cooper Kupp weighed in as a high school freshman, he wore jeans to hid the weights he had wrapped around his ankles. He measured in at 5-foot-4, 119 pounds.
“I wouldn't say much of what I do is natural,” Kupp said at the Senior Bowl.
“I was one of those guys that was pretty small, pretty slow, pretty weak. A lot of what I had to do, I had to work. I was behind the curve with a lot of my friends growing up. I learned at an early age that I had to work.”
Kupp is an example of a self-made wide receiver who took himself to record-setting heights.