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"FacebookPinterest\n\nJ. J. Watt is the best, scariest, pass-swattingest defensive player in the NFL. Last year at age 23, in just his second season, he led all defensive linemen with sixteen blocked passes\u2014nearly double the next highest total\u2014giving quarterbacks a fresh reason to be terrified of the snarling, 6-foot-5, 295-lb brute. But all of this record-shattering has caused a very big problem for the hulking Houston Texan: Everyone who saw him rampage through the league is telling him that there's no better defensive player alive. \"I love it when people doubt me, or when people say I can't do something,\" Watt says. Well, tough luck, J. J. No one's doubting you now.\n\nSee, Watt isn't used to hearing how awesome he is. Recruited as a tight end by Central Michigan, he packed up for Wisconsin after his freshman year, even though he had no scholarship waiting for him. \"I was gambling on myself,\" Watt says. \"There were a lot of people who told me I was dumb, who told me I was making a huge mistake.\" He found one of those doubters during his first day of work at Pizza Hut, where he'd taken a short-term gig while prepping for his move to the Big Ten. Watt weighed around 240 pounds back then, slight enough, he says, that the guy training him in the pizza arts \"looked at me, and he said, 'Man, you're not big enough to play for the Badgers.' And I said, 'All right, just watch.' \"\n\nWatt got huge, earned a scholarship, won a bunch of awards, left school early for the NFL draft, and made one pizza guy look really dumb. Now that's he made it in pro football, Watt's goal is to win a triple crown of sorts for defensive linemen: lead the league in sacks, run stuffs, and tipped passes. Of course, he did that last year\u2014his goal is to do it again, with bigger numbers in each category. Anybody want to tell him he can't do it? Didn't think so."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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