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Michigan's Rashan Gary named college football's biggest athletic freak

Meet college football’s No. 1 "freak": Michigan defensive end Rashan Gary.

Gary topped college football guru Bruce Feldman’s annual list of players with outstanding physical abilities. Last year’s edition ranked former Penn State running back Saquon Barkley No. 1. The year before that, it was former Texas A&M defensive end Myles Garrett. This year, it’s Gary, the rising junior defensive end who started all 13 games for Michigan last fall.

“The No. 1 overall prospect in the 2016 recruiting class hasn’t disappointed,” Feldman wrote in The Athletic. “He made first-team All-Big Ten as a sophomore in 2017 after producing 66 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, six sacks and seven quarterback hurries.