FAMU linemen heat up strength testing

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Florida A&M offensive linemen James Rose and Kevin House created such a racket in the weight room Monday morning that they drowned out the clacking sound of iron around them.

Each insisted that the other couldn’t match his lift during the first day of testing. They went back and fort until Rose took one last lift and rushed off to a class. He was satisfied with his 425 pounds. House settled for 415.

“We always push each other,” said House, a redshirt freshman who will start at right guard. “Usually I’m stronger than him but I went to work on my lower body more than my upper body. It just drives us with competition; speed and everything. It makes us get high reps and higher max.”

What House and Rose lifted turned out the be ...

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