Now, after an offseason of conditioning designed to add pounds and muscle, Mayowa weighs 255. And, by all accounts, he has retained the speed and quickness off the edge that compelled the team to keep him in the first place.
“I needed to put that weight on and not just have speed, but look the part of a LEO defensive end,” Mayowa said. “I was looking at the people in front of me, and that’s what I wanted to look like.”
Said defensive coordinator Dan Quinn: “He had always shown some pass-rush stuff. But we knew for him to play all downs, he had to get bigger. And so that was one of the goals of the offseason. So for him to come back and have the added size and strength and still be moving well was going to be important, and that’s what I’ve seen.”