Campus Confidential

It's long been said that speed kills.

I believe it does, but so do insanely huge guys.

Percy Harvin now has both.

Harvin had a lot of time to pass in the offseason after surgery on a very problematic heel. Considering he couldn't improve his already deadly speed, Harvin took to the weights and impressed everyone in Gainesville by transforming himself from the waist up.

The Percy Harvin on the left is a trail-blazing senior in two and a half years ago at Landstown High in Virginia Beach who put up 33 touchdowns, five of which were runs of 80-yards or more (14 of 50 or more).

The Harvin on the right is a national champion all-purpose devastator for the Florida Gators. In two years he's been tabbed an All-American, SEC Freshman of the Year, SEC Championship Game MVP and All-SEC first and second team. He's also incredibly bulked.

The work he put in while he couldn't run is obvious. The picture of him to the right is almost exactly one year ago. You can see he's in good shape, but he's not looking like he's ready for the world's strongest man contest.

I've heard some interesting things about Harvin's future, and I'll just say I wouldn't be surpised if he's staying in the weight room extra hours in preparation for a certain annual April event that'd he's eligible for in 2009...

Either way, the Gators are pretty much in everyone's preseason Top 5 and Harvin is a big reason why. And with the progress he's shown, he's poised for another huge year -- as long as that heel is mending the way everyone has claimed it has.

--AA