On March 8, less than a week before spring practice began for the Wisconsin Badgers, true freshman nose tackle Bryson Williams tweeted a video from his first winter conditioning in Madison demonstrating his impressive strength.
The 29-second clip showed the 6’2, 306-pound Lincoln, Neb., native, with teammates yelling and music blaring in the background, squatting an impressive 550 pounds three times. Then his fellow Badgers swarmed him with congratulations.
“I knew we were going for that three-rep max that day,” Williams said on Thursday. “My goal was originally 520 because before that it had been 500, but I was really feeling it and all the guys were of course hyped.