Top Reasons Why No One Should Want to Play USC in 2008 - Part 3 - DEFENSE -Taylor Mays

Why No One Should Want to Play the Trojans in 2008 - Defense - Part 2: Taylor Mays

All I can say is, if you're a wide receiver on an opposing team that wants to go across the middle of the field, make it good because that might be your last play of the night. Mays is to receivers and tight-ends as Everson Griffen is to quarterbacks. This guy is a predator on the field. When the USC strength coach (Chris Carlisle) was asked if he has ever see anything that big, move that fast he responded, "Maybe when I walked by the cheetah cage at the wildlife park."

Taylor Mays is 6'3", 230 lbs, 6% body fat, and runs the 40 in 4.32 seconds. That's not a made up or fabricated number folks. That was electronically timed. He's been timed in the past in the 4.2's.

Here's an interesting clip about him from an Oregon paper:

"UW offensive coordinator Tim Lappano was fresh from Dennis Erickson's San Francisco 49ers staff when he first set eyes on Mays, then attending O'Dea High School.
"He looked like they do on Sunday when we recruited him," Lappano told reporters this week. "When he walked into this place two years ago and they said he was in high school -- we didn't have guys with the 49ers who looked like that.""

Take a look at this video. Remember, Craig Stevens is 6'5, 254 lbs.



Enjoy the 2008 season Trojans. For those who play the Trojans, enjoy every game but the one against the Trojans.