When Jerald Hawkins came out in the 2016 NFL Draft, he was officially weighed at 305 pounds. That is what is listed on the team’s website. That is what is listed on his Combine draft profile, and on the NFL’s official player page for him. But that wasn’t his playing weight.
Hawkins, a product of LSU during a time in which they had Leonard Fournette, Derrius Guice, and before that, Jeremy Hill, played much heavier than that for the Fighting Tigers, and he brought that weight with him to the NFL.
He talked about that recently with Tim Benz, and how he decided to drop that weight after his season-ending quad injury a little over a year ago.