One College Football Team Has a 400-Pound Nose Tackle Ready To Crush Running Backs

College football is just around the corner and BYU’s secret weapon is blowing up all over Twitter. The team’s social media accounts can’t hide the fact that a 6-foot-7, 410-pound nose tackle is waiting to shut down offenses all over college football, and yes there are highlights.

Motekiai Langi, or “Big Mo,” is ready to roll for the Cougars. The Tsonga native hasn’t played much football, but with size like that and some impressive quickness, Langi is getting some hype to match his massive frame before the college football season kicks off.

Check out this arm tackle, and the reaction from those watching when the running back sinks into his arm and then hits the turf.

Pretty amazing if he can do that kind of thing during a game.

The BYU Twitter account is definitely buying what Langi is selling. And he seems to be enjoying himself online, too.

He seems to have a good work ethic, too. He actively tweets about things he needs to improve in his game.

He actually just got back to the United States and, according to Yahoo Sports, he has quite the interesting background.

The native of Tonga had never played a snap of football before when former BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall offered him a scholarship. Cougars assistant Steve Kaufusi, still with the program on the staff of Kalani Sitake, spotted Langi playing basketball during a recruiting trip to Tonga and thought he was very light on his feet for his size.

Langi is a relative of former BYU star and current NFL player Harvey Langi, so there was a connection to the school, but it wasn’t until he stopped on campus on the way to beginning his LDS mission in Phoenix, Arizona, did Mendenhall offer him a full-ride.

It’s a long journey to college football, sure, but he certainly looks ready to play.

(via Yahoo Sports)