While the media is locked into college football’s talking season and many fans are trying to sneak in another vacation before the kids to back to school, student-athletes are entrenched in summer workouts and LSU senior defensive end Lewis Neal is setting records.
Neal, who led LSU with eight sacks in 2015, posted a video Tuesday of himself power-cleaning a school-record 391 pounds.
The previous record of 385 pounds was held by six former Tigers: Drake Nevis, P.J. Lonergan, Shawn Jordan, Steve Korte, Andrew Whitworth and Michael Ford. Tommy Moffitt, LSU’s coordinator of strength and conditioning, said Neal will be attempting to break Joseph Barksdale’s squat max record of 704 pounds.