Man, this was no good. Tanner Farmer was up to 335 pounds. He had a particular weakness for Raising Cane's. With all that weight, the knees ached after practices. He couldn't get to blocks the way he wanted. Buried on the depth chart.
"I was thinking, ‘Man, I’m not moving up. I’m not doing anything. What can I do?'" Farmer says.
A few locker room stalls over, Jerald Foster, another touted offensive lineman from the 2014 recruiting class, was doing his own soul-searching on how to be one of those guys coach Mike Cavanaugh called on for 75 snaps on a Saturday in the fall.