Paulson Adebo went into the 2020 college football season with plenty of hype behind him: he’s an athletic prototype at 6-foot-1 and 198 pounds with ballhawk skills, but Adebo saw his stock plummet when he opted out amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But he stayed busy — in lieu of playing his final season at Stanford, Adebo flew home to Texas to train fastidiously with a familiar face: defensive backs specialist Clay Mack, a Dallas-based skills trainer who specializes in helping prospects transition to the NFL.
An industry leader who applies a scientific approach to training through functional movement, Mack has worked with multiple first-round draft picks including Jeff Okudah, Jamal Adams, Bryon Jones, and Marshon Lattimore.