South Carolina Football: Ranking the most otherworldly Gamecock athletes
By Kevin Miller
South Carolina Football’s No. 11 Most Otherworldly Player of All-Time:
Tight End Jared Cook
Jared Cook was born on the planet Krypton and has superpowers. His Superman-like qualities included his size (6’5″ and 250 pounds), speed (ran a 40-yard dash in the 4.4s), and leaping ability (41″ vertical leap). Though he was faster than a speeding bullet and could leap tall buildings in a single bound, Cook was under-targeted during his Gamecock career.
That changed in the NFL as Jared Cook will go down as one of the all-time great tight ends in professional football history as he ranks in the top-20 ever in career tight end receiving yards (13th) and tight end receiving touchdowns (19th).
Based on physical attributes alone, it is obvious that Cook was no mere mortal. Hopefully, if the aliens become our interstellar overlords, Cook and his extraterrestrial brethren will have mercy on the rest of us.