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✨🎉Happy Birthday🎉✨ @ashersmasher05 we are so excited that you can finally sit in the front seat of the car!! We hope you had an amazing day celebrating yesterday and today!! No one else would have spent their birthday training sisters @kari.wolverine.taylor and @princessdt1 for their sports and hitting the gym @commercefitness with your brother @dalekvader18 thanks for being you, we can’t wait to see what the future holds for you. Before we know it you’ll be on your way to @alabamafbl and then @nfl with @patriots keep setting goal and working hard for them!! #ashersmasher05 #hsaafootball #commercefitness #rolltide #bamafactor #gronk #tombrady #mikeevans #edelman #drewbrees #jjwatt #tjwatt #derekwatt #taysomhill #devinmccourty #patriots #football #nfl #workout #combine #nike #adidasfootball #tx #training #fit #fitness #supportlocal #hardwork #jaytayturboz #crazyacres6wc @hsaafootballdfw @alabamafbl @gronk @tombrady @j_franklinmyers @ts_hill @drewbrees @mikeevans @chrisgodwin @buccaneers @edelman11 @tjwatt90 @wattsup34 @jjwatt @derekcarrqb @rtannehill17 @last_king_2 @saquon @patrickmahomes @nike @adidasfootball @academy @chrisgronkowski @iceshaker @crazyacres6wc @jaytayturboz (at Wolfe City, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdPlZV6MwpD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Some more contract details from around the league: * DE Carl Nassib, Raiders: signed. Three-year, $25MM deal with $17MM guaranteed, according to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport (via Twitter). The deal has a max value of $28MM. * LB Kiko Alonso, Saints: restructured contract. Base salary reduced from $6.4MM to $1.7MM, $4.7MM available in incentives. Already has $1.45MM roster bonus, meaning he can still hit his previous $7.85MM total via playing-time bonuses. All notes via ESPN’s Mike Triplett on Twitter. * DE Quinton Jefferson, Bills: two-year deal. Contract worth $13.5MM total, according to ESPN’s Dan Graziano on Twitter. * FB Derek Watt, Steelers: signed. Three-year deal worth $9.75MM, according to ESPN’s Brooke Pryor on Twitter. * LBKamu Grugier-Hill, Dolphins: one-year deal. Contract worth $3MM, including $2MM signing bonus, according to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo on Twitter. Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle tweets that there’s up to $500K in playing time incentives. #CarlNassib #DerekWatt #KamuGrugierHill
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Our ceramic pla 3D-Printed models and design video made it to the TV screens of many South Africans one Sunday evening a few weeks ago! Another milestone for Mavrakis Concepts! . . . . . . . #2120timevault #3dmodel #3dp #3dprinted #3dprinting #artifacts #capetown #carteblanche #ceramicpla #derekwatts #documentary #durban #fame #funprint #igers #johannesburg #madeinsouthafrica #media #mnet #presentation #preservation #pretoria #project #timecapsule #southafrica #time #tv #za #video (at Pretoria, South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bssbwb1HTd5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o6t0m4egdjhi
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@carteblanchetv: When iconic actress @Janefonda paid SA a visit in the 90s, she surprised @DerekWatts with her trout fishing skills – and gave him a lesson or two. #CarteBlanche30 https://t.co/UXmdPtMvZn
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Here is me in my first game of the season with the Gladiator’s. Only got a little play time due to my ankle just being healed to played. #gladitors #football #number5 #crazyacres6wc #jaytayturboz #gronk #jjwatt #tjwatt #derekwatt #taysomhill #tombrady #drewbrees #devinmccourty (at San Antonio, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKUbDeShJde/?igshid=39q0ro9o5bjj
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Headed to San Antonio for our 1st game as Gladiators!! #football #gladiators #jaytayturboz #crazyacres6wc #gronk #tombrady #tayson #jjwatt #derekwatt #tjwatt #drewbrees @tjwatt90 @wattsup34 @jjwatt @drewbrees @ts_hill @tombrady @gronk @crazyacres6wc @jaytayturboz (at Waco, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKE-h0WFRbA/?igshid=1kp1v8u79k48w
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Wisconsin football 2015 preview: Way-too-early look at running backs
What more can be said about last season's running attack? Melvin Gordon finished second in FBS history for rushing yards in a single season. He was a human highlight reel and even rushed for 408 yards in three quarters. With sophomore Corey Clement providing a dynamic complement out of the backfield, the Badgers were able to over-compensate for their lack of a passing game as the offense set a single-season school record for rushing yards for the second consecutive year (4,482). The Heisman runner-up still has a year of eligibility, but will be headed to the NFL Draft. Who can blame him? And how do you begin to replace a guy like Gordon? The Badgers will attempt to with Clement, a plethora of unproven backs behind him and a set of experienced fullbacks to help open holes and running lanes. It's Clement's backfield to own, but who will back him up? Leaders (2014 stats) Tailbacks: Melvin Gordon: 343 rushes, 2,597 yards, 7.5 yards per carry, 29 touchdowns Corey Clement: 147 carries, 949 yards, 6.5 yards per carry, 9 touchdowns Dare Ogunbowale: 34 carries, 193 yards, 5.7 yards per carry, 1 touchdown Fullbacks: Derek Watt, Austin Ramesh Returning players Tailbacks: Clement (JR), Dare Ogunbowale (RS JR), Caleb Kinlaw (assuming RS FR), Taiwan Deal (assuming RS FR), Mark Saari (assuming RS FR) Fullbacks: Derek Watt (RS SR), Austin Ramesh (RS SO), Derek Strass (RS SR), D.J. Spurling (RS SO) Departing players Tailbacks: Gordon Fullbacks: None Additions to position Running Backs: Jordan Stevenson (South Oak Cliff -- Dallas, TX), Bradrick Shaw (Hoover -- Birmingham, Ala.) Fullbacks: Jake Whalen (Wausau West -- Wausau, Wis.) X-Factors Running backs: Finding a No. 2 and No. 3 running back. Who will be the guy behind Clement? That is the $1 million question for the position, and not even running backs coach Thomas Brown knows. Ogunbowale is a question mark at this point in his career after making the switch from corner to running back midseason. While he had good showings against Bowling Green and Nebraska, it was in garbage time and his sample size is extremely small. Kinlaw and Deal both redshirted this season due to injury last season. Stevenson and Shaw come in as true freshman looking to make an impact. Fullbacks: Paul Chryst. Chryst has always found ways to develop tight ends and utilizes them expertly. This poses a problem at the fullback position because last Derek Watt was going to play the "H-Back" position in Andy Ludwig's offense. While that never really came to fruition because of Watt's injury last season, he has practiced at both positions and gives Chryst and Joe Rudolph the option to move him out to the position, which would leave them with Ramesh, Strass and Spurling at the position. Watt has shown his ability to catch the ball out of the backfield in the past so the move is not out of the realm of possibility, but the coaching staff may want to keep him at fullback to open holes at the second level, something he has been very successful at doing over the past few years. Early prediction for starters: Corey Clement and Derek Watt Tailbacks: This year's running back group will be the most inexperienced group in over four years. While Wisconsin still has its workhorse back for next year in Clement, it typically has two proven backs waiting at the helm. Clement is clearly a guy who has not been bashful about his eagerness to take over as the No. back, but the No. 2 back returning for next season is Ogunbowale -- who was playing cornerback to start the season last year. Ogunbowale joined in the party against Bowling Green and Nebraska, and saw double-digit carries in both, averaging 6.7 and 6.2 yards per carry in each game, respectively. He only received 34 carries all season, though. This is definitely an area of concern for the Badgers. The other returners at running back haven't taken a snap in a Badger uniform. It remains to be seen how Kinlaw (shoulder and hip) and Deal (right hand) will come back after redshirting due to injury. Both were highly touted backs and have a year of studying the playbook under their belts, but will have to prove that they can perform on the field and stay healthy. The Badgers have a lot of depth coming in this season with a four-star stud in Stevenson, as well as Shaw joining the Badgers. Stevenson is really the wild card in the group. He was a late commit to the Badgers, flipping from Texas to Wisconsin after Andersen departed for Oregon State, and has Badger fans excited. Stevenson has the ability to step in right away and contribute at the No. 2 or No. 3 running back, but will have to battle Ogunbowale, Kinlaw and Deal for reps and playing time. Fullbacks: Watt stays at the position and proves to be a key blocker for a successful running game next season, with the restoration of a "traditional" Wisconsin offense now that Chryst and Rudolph are back. There will be more I-formation plays, which need a fullback like, Chris Pressley, Bradie Ewing, etc. They will see Watt as a more valuable asset at fullback than tight end, but get him involved in the play-action passing game with flat routes and even a screen play or two. Watt will be the most valuable, unnoticed, under-appreciated player next season.
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PEWAUKEE, Wis. — The Watt brothers have always been competitive — with others ideally, with each other when necessary — whether playing their first love, hockey; their current sport, football; or their family pastime of shinny, a pickup hockey game that is specific to their basement.
And for decades, the Watt family has had a firm grasp on the shot-put record at Pewaukee High School.
The first to set the mark was John Watt, with a throw of 54 feet 5 ½ inches in 1980. In 2007, his son J. J. threw the shot 59-11 ¾. Six years later, another son, T. J., hurled it 60- ½.
John’s middle son, Derek, never held the record — officially. At the 2011 state championship in La Crosse, Derek threw the shot more than 60 feet, only to be scratched.
“I just gave it everything I got and — allegedly — my heel hit the toe board,” Derek said last month, his tone failing to mask his bitterness.
T. J. is 6 feet 5 inches and 247 pounds, and J. J. is 6-5 and 289 pounds (at birth, he was 9 pounds 14 ounces). At 6-2 and 236 pounds, Derek is the smallest of the brothers.
The brothers as children at the Watt family home in Pewaukee, Wis.CreditLauren Justice for The New York Times
“So mine’s more impressive,” a smiling Derek said of his throw.
On Saturday night, the Watts’ parents, John and Connie, will be in Indianapolis as Derek, a redshirt junior fullback, and T. J., a redshirt freshman tight end sidelined by knee surgery, and their No. 11 Wisconsin Badgers (10-2) face No. 6 Ohio State (11-1) for the Big Ten championship.
Then, on Sunday, they will watch J. J., a defensive end who is among the top players in the N.F.L., lead the Houston Texans against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
J. J., whom Houston drafted in the first round months before Derek arrived at Wisconsin, was named defensive player of the year in 2012, his second N.F.L. season, tallying 20 ½ sacks. This season, he has scored touchdowns on a fumble recovery and an interception, as well as on offense. A few months ago, he signed a contract extension worth $100 million over six years.
Derek, 22, and T. J., 20, get plenty of attention because of the accomplishments of their older brother.
“People may think that he puts on a front,” T. J. said, “that a lot of the quotes and special things he does are not who he actually is, and we do feel a little bit of a responsibility to tell people that that’s actually who he is.”
When asked about his brothers, J. J. does not mention their athletic prowess. Although they watch each other’s games, they don’t talk about football as if they were reviewing game film.
“The thing I’m most proud of is the way they handle themselves,” J. J., 25, said in a telephone interview. “People were trying to say how they get recognition through their name, to see how they handle it. It would be very easy for them to be upset at those people. They don’t let it bother them.”
To find out what is in the Watt family water, one needs to visit Pewaukee, a city of 13,000 a little west of Milwaukee and about an hour east of Madison. The thing to focus on, though, might not be the water so much as the chicken fried rice that is John’s specialty and the mostaccioli that is Connie’s.
“We’re not very good cooks, but we can cook in quantity,” said John, 52, a former firefighter.
The Watts would serve their three sons an early dinner around 4:30 p.m., after they were finished practicing or working out, and a second dinner around 8. They also packed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for them to munch on between classes and always cooked hot breakfasts.
“They were burning so many calories,” said Connie, 45, a retired vice president for a building-inspection company. “It wasn’t to try to get them to the N.F.L. or next level. It was just trying to take care of them.”
If the brothers were a boy band, J. J. would be the leader, T. J. would be the one who gets some of the best solos and Derek would be the mischievous cult favorite.
Or the manager.
“Derek is very smart, very calculated, very diligent,” J. J. said of his brother, a marketing major. “One of those guys that sticks to his schedule. He’s probably the smartest of us three.”
Connie recalled that Derek would wake up on Saturdays and do homework while his brothers watched cartoons. On cruises (the family still takes one every year, even though one Watt has become a famous athlete), J. J. and T. J. tend to head to the cabin after dinner while Derek goes to find the people he met during the day.
John and J. J. said T. J. is shy. J. J. also described T. J. as nostalgic and goofy.
“J. J. and T. .J. are alike in a lot of ways — in their personalities, in their body frames,” said Mike Lecher, a defensive coach at Pewaukee High who had all three Watt boys as well as their father in his charge at one time or another.
John and Connie live in the same yellow Victorian they moved into a dozen years ago so they did not have to drive J. J. across town to 6 a.m. football practices. Proximity remains important. Lecher said he recently saw J. J. emerge from the Pewaukee High weight room around 5 a.m.; he had a golf tournament in Madison to attend later in the day.
J.J. Watt playing for the Houston Texans on Sunday against Tampa Bay.CreditScott Halleran/Getty Images
J. J.’s focus on conditioning and improvement is well known. His brothers share it, and by several accounts, that traces back to their father.
Clay Iverson, who coached J. J., Derek and T. J. at Pewaukee High, said: “Didn’t take long to find out these were special young men.”
John “made sure that those kids worked hard,” Iverson said.
As John said: “My saying has always been, ‘I don’t expect you to be perfect, but I always expect you to try to be perfect.’ ”
J. J. recently took his brothers on a makeshift grand tour of Europe that was probably different from most people’s vacations.
“We never really got adjusted to the time change,” J. J. said. “We ran down the Champs-Élysées at 3 a.m. Worked out at 2 in the morning.”
“The cool part,” J. J. added, was that they wanted to work out “just as hard as I do, even though the Eiffel Tower or gelato is just down the road.”
That is something of a sticking point for their mother. Connie said she did not worry about her sons’ safety, although J. J.’s Twitter page pictures him in uniform with a profusely bloody nose. What she is concerned about is their personal lives.
Throughout high school, the boys did not have serious girlfriends, she said. J. J., who has acquired some famous friends (he recently tweeted a picture of himself with Justin Timberlake), has said that he considers much of his life on hold until his window for athletic greatness has closed.
Do the younger Watts plan to stick to J. .J.’s football-first mentality?
“Unfortunately, yep,” Connie said.
She is right.
“You’ve got to be willing to sacrifice, whatever it takes, this time in your life,” Derek said as T. J. looked on. “That’s what the great ones do. They put aside the fun and leisure things, you could say, for the short time you have the opportunity to play at the highest level.”
Derek missed six games this season after injuring his right foot in the Badgers’ opening game. He returned Nov. 15 against Nebraska, helping block for running back Melvin Gordon, a Heisman contender, as he rushed for 408 yards, then a Football Bowl Subdivision record.
After the game, Gordon gave credit where it was partly due. “I’m so comfortable with Watt back there,” he said.
Derek, who plans to graduate next fall, projects as the top fullback in the 2016 N.F.L. draft. But as the N.F.L. has shifted to a pass-first mind-set, fullback has become a luxury.
“He’s the kind of guy I could see giving football a shot for a year,” John said, “and if it doesn’t work out, ‘O.K., I’ll go get a job in the business world.’ He’d be perfectly fine with that.”
As for T. J., John said, “If you ask him, there’s no question” he is going to make it to the N.F.L.
Derek believes they possess the blueprint.
“He showed us how to do it,” Derek said of J. J. “I think that’s why we’re able to be successful at what we do, because we know the right way to do it.”
Then, he added, “It would be pretty remarkable to go up against him in a game.”
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NCAAF - Warren Herring, Derek Watt out
The Wisconsin Badgers have lost starting nose tackle Warren Herring and starting fullback Derek Watt following surgeries.
Herring is out four to six weeks after right knee surgery, and Watt will miss about two months after surgery on his right foot.
Both Herring and Watt sustained their injuries during last Saturday's loss to LSU.
Herring, who has played in 36 career games, could return for Wisconsin's Big Ten opener Oct. 4 at Northwestern. Watt has started five games in each of the past two seasons.
The Badgers likely will rotate Arthur Goldberg and several other players at nose tackle. Austin Ramesh will take over at fullback.
Starting defensive end Konrad Zagzebski, who was carted off the field against LSU after sustaining a blow to the head, is practicing this week and could play Saturday against Western Illinois.
Zagzebski told reporters he temporarily lost feeling on his left side after the hit and was taken to the hospital as a precaution. He underwent tests and was cleared to return to practice. -- via http://m.espn.go.com/ncf/story?storyId=11461876&src=desktop&ex_cid=espnapi_internal&wjb
Wishing Derek, his teammate, and TJ, who is hurt as well, a speedy recovery.
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