People who get to know George Asafo-Adjei, the Kentucky offensive lineman known as “Big George” whom the New York Giants recently selected in the seventh round of the 2019 NFL Draft, are affected by him.
A member of the Kentucky athletic department’s public relations staff told me the 6-foot-4, 306-pound Asafo-Adjei is a “big teddy bear.”
Kentucky offensive line coach John Schlarman went further.
“He’s a great human being. I mean a great human being. Not a good one,” Schlarman said recently by phone.
“He’s the type of guy if I wanted to take my wife on a trip I’d leave my four kids at home with him and I wouldn’t have to worry about them for a week.