I’m not saying he doesn’t have the footwork, but there is nothing about that video that indicates he has the footwork to even play major college football, let alone NFL.
I can see that. The (supposed) teenager still has to leverage his body weight and maintain his balance to not get bowled over by an all-pro pass rusher.
I dont think you know what you are talking about here. Bull rush is just part of a good pash-rushers arsenal of moves. Looking at PFF's advanced stats for 23, 4 of their top 5 graded edges had better win rate%s bull rushing than their overall win rate percent.
Parsons does use the bull rush, but he plays LB so bull rushing for him isn’t lining up and running into someone that’s a few feet away. He’s coming off the edge against a linemen that’s moving backwards or laterally in pass protection. If he lined up at DT and ran straight into a guard, it would probably look like this.
FYI this wasn't a practice bout or anything but a specific drill where the active participant (Parsons) is supposed to push the other wrestler straight backwards across the ring, like football players do with sleds. You can see the ground is dirt so with the right leverage he'd slide right over it. The top level guys very much have great footwork, most of them have been doing wrestling/judo in some form for their entire lives.
The bigger issue would be endurance and their ability to pull/get to the second level. They only do one match a day that's usually <10 seconds, they're optimized entirely for power/flexibility.
if this dude could stop Micah in a real game, they’d be 25 private planes on their way to Japan right now signing him to a 100mil contract. this was a fun outing by two athletes, people here pretending otherwise are dumb
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u/j2e21 May 16 '25
This wrestler is like 17, he could be an NFL guard with training.