McCullers is more than just big body trying to make it in NFL

By Mark Kaboly

Soda, Doritos and a lot of Madden … sleep and then repeat.

Daniel McCullers' days at Southeast Raleigh High School didn't have much variation when it wasn't football season.

“He was just being a typical high school kid,” former Southeast Raleigh head coach Daniel Finn said.

But nothing has ever been typical about Daniel McCullers … ever.

Typically, you don't see many 6-foot-7, 400-plus pound high school seniors who can dunk a basketball … in jeans.

Typically, you don't run across too many 250-pound 12-year-olds.

Typically, you don't see many kids sit in a chair at the mall and the chair explode.

Typically, you don't see many 400-pound 18-year-olds line up for morning formation wearing a military uniform and swear to a Cadet Honor Code.

Typically, you don't get recognized at a South Side sandwich shop by name a week after being the 215th pick in the NFL Draft, even if it was by the Steelers.

The man they call Mount McCullers is far from typical.

“He's gigantic,” Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert said, “and big guys are hard to come by these days. I am pretty sure we got the biggest.”

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I read in another article that he was teased terribly in his youth too.

I'm really pulling for this kid.   

Here's to him becoming "large and in charge" in the middle of our D-line.