A bigger David Stone is a better David Stone. Take a 5-star defensive tackle and give him 20 pounds of muscle and more than a year of college football, and he’ll naturally be a better player.

Costello believes football has an “outdated fixation” with body composition (how much of a player’s body is fat, bone and muscle mass) as a performance metric.

Objective The objective of this study is to describe the mechanism of injury and situational patterns (based on ball possession and playing action leading to injury) of severe (lay-off time >28 days) ...

Take a 5-star defensive tackle and give him 20 pounds of muscle and more than a year of college football, and he’ll naturally be a better player. But a better David Stone — well, that’s a ...

Take a 5-star defensive tackle and give him 20 pounds of muscle and more than a year of college football, and he’ll naturally be a better player. But a better David Stone — well, that’s a ...