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English's looks are deceiving
Mild-mannered Sooner is a beast on the field

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: December 26, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

PHOENIX — Auston English looks more artist than football player. More surfer than sackmaster.

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OU defensive end Auston English doesn't quite look like the monster he turns into on the football field. Associated press

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Scruffy hair, sleepy eyes. Not that tall. No bulging biceps. Sit next to English in British Lit, and you wouldn't ask, who do play Saturday, you'd ask, where does your band play Saturday?

English's first two years as a Sooner, the typical conversation went something like this.

"You play football? What position?”

"Defensive end.”

"Man, you're too small to play defensive end.”

"He gets that a lot,” said English's roommate, Curtis Lofton.

English is low-key around the house. He likes to lay around. He'll play Xbox if he can find the energy. Lofton calls him "Lazy.” If not "Goofy.”

Then English puts on shoulder pads and he's a different person. Put English on the football field, and he goes from couch potato to wrecking crew.

"On the field, his motor never stops,” Lofton said. "He's always trying to make plays.”

English entered the season as a candidate to start. He goes into the Fiesta Bowl as a defensive cornerstone for the Sooners; if not for a ankle injury suffered against Texas A&M, English might have beaten out Lofton for Big 12 defensive player of the year.

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