Tennessee defensive lineman Jordan Williams (54) and his teammates try and pump up the crowd at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville.KNOXVILLE – Just in case you needed another reminder of why life isn’t fair, we use today’s press ink and newsprint to focus on University of Tennessee senior defensive lineman Jordan Williams.
While most of the rest of us attempt in vain to count every cruel calorie, sweat to oldies at least once a month and ponder that timeless musical question — to borrow from the brilliance of Paul Simon — “Why I am soft in the middle now [when] the rest of my life is so hard?,” Williams has been ordered to gain weight.
Lots of weight.
“I was 255 at the end of last season,” the Gainesville, Fla., resident said during Thursday’s media session. “I weigh 285 now. I’ve been told to eat everything I can get my hands on. It’s a lot of eating and eating late at night.”
For all you folks who hate yourselves for a single cup of ice cream after 10 p.m., it gets worse. Much worse.