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Chicago Bears Draft Jarron Gilbert: YouTube Star Now, NFL Star Soon?

Apr 26, 2009 – 12:45 PM
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Jarron Gilbert, a defensive lineman out of San Jose State, is already a YouTube star. The Chicago Bears hope he'll become an NFL star as well.

Gilbert's extraordinary athleticism is reflected in videos of him jumping out of pools and squatting and deadlifting more than 600 pounds. Those videos have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube, and you can take a look at both of them after the jump.





Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo says Bears fans are going to like what they see in Gilbert.

"Last night when we reconvened with the scouts and our coaches we felt that we had three players we were real comfortable with,'' Angelo said, per the Chicago Sun-Times. "The way it came out, a couple of players were gone, one of them was there Gilbert. He has a lot of flexibility. We really didn't expect him to be there but we felt that we wanted to. Feel he is going to be a very good pass rusher for us. Maybe he isn't 100 percent prototype of the defensive lineman we're used to seeing because he's very tall. But he's very, very talented. Dick Tomey couldn't say enough good things about him. He did come on his senior year. I think he is ready to go."

He looks like he's ready to go. Here's one more video, which gives a better indication of what kind of football player Gilbert is:

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