Ryan Switzer remembers the first time he realized Mack Hollins was a little different.
Teammates at the University of North Carolina, they were going through summer workouts in Chapel Hill. Switzer, an incoming freshman, was running sprints alongside Hollins, a sophomore.
“We were running gassers,” Switzer recalled. “This guy is running them barefoot, and he’s smoking everybody, all the guys in cleats. I was just thinking, ‘Something about this dude is off.’
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“But it’s him, and he’s been consistent that way for the 11 or 12 years I’ve known him.