The sheet of paper in Jonathan Taylor's hands technically weighs only four-and-a-half grams. But the weight of what he's holding—the staggering numbers he's compiled over the past two years, the football giants he has outperformed and the history he's trying to run down—is heavy beyond words.
Seated on a couch inside Wisconsin's football complex, four weeks before his junior season begins, Taylor scans the page in silence.
He starts at the top, combing through a summary of his 2019 season, when he ran for 2,194 yards, the seventh-most rushing yards in a season in NCAA history.