2023 NFL Combine: USC’s Andrew Vorhees records 38 bench press associates after tearing ACL

USC offensive lineman Andrew Vorhees, a possibility in the 2023 NFL Draft, apparently suffered a torn ACL throughout last weekend’s NFL integrate. The injury might force Vorhees to missouton his novice NFL season. 

While a torn ACL would usually put an end to a gamer’s integrate exercises, that was not the case with Vorhees. Following the injury, he set the high-water mark for bench press associates, notching 38 associates at 225 pounds — while just utilizing one leg.

Vorhees’ efficiency went viral on social media, particularly after no other integrate individual was able to beat his overall on the bench press.

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Vorhees was a secret part of an offensive line that obstructed for 2022 Heisman Trophy Winner Caleb Williams. In reality, he viewed Williams accept the award in individual after the quarterback setup for that whole position group to participatein the Heisman event.

Several of Vorhees’ previous Trojans coaches, consistingof Lincoln Riley, applauded the lineman on Twitter after his accomplishment.

Vorhees missedouton the 2022 Pac-12 Championship Game and 2023 Cotton Bowl due to an undefined injury, the intensity of which was neverever completely exposed. Riley typically openly pointed to Vorhees playing hurt throughout the 2nd half of last season and did so onceagain on Tuesday.

FOX Sports college football expert Joel Klatt likewise talkedabout Vorhees’ injury in the newest episode of “The Joel Klatt Show,” utilizing Vorhees’ regrettable obstacle as an example of why he has contempt for the integrate.

“I’m ill to my stomach when I see people doing things that have no translation to what they are going to do on the football field, and then they get harm,” Klatt stated. “Namely, I can’t stand that we put linemen through some of these drills [like the 40-yard dash] that, rather honestly, puton’t equate at all, and then we wind up seeing an injury.” 

Still, Klatt provided Vorhees credit for coming back and standingout at the bench press.

“How about that?” Klatt stated. “Good on Andrew Vorhees.”

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