Whitlock is now an NFL fullback.
Nikita Whitlock was confused by the request. He had played nose tackle since Pee Wee football. Had been Player of the Year at the position as a Texas high schooler. Had been a starter at the nose nearly his entire career at Wake Forest. Yet, here he was as a senior listening to a Demon Deacons coach tell him that "you might want to start catching some balls."
"I said 'what do you mean?,' " Whitlock said during a recent conversation before a training camp practice with the New York Giants at Quest Diagnostics Training Center.