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Is 5-10 too short to play defensive line? Not for Giants fullback Nikita Whitlock

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  • Dan Graziano, ESPN Staff Writer Close
    • Joined ESPN in 2011
    • New Jersey native and author of two published novels
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Nikita Whitlock had 18.5 sacks in his college career as a defensive tackle at Wake Forest, including nine in his senior year of 2013. But by the summer of 2015, when he was in training camp trying to make the New York Giants as a fullback, Whitlock had given up on the idea of ever collecting a sack in the NFL.