Tiger Tylik Weeks lost 80 pounds in a year after picking basketball over football
Memphis Tigers forward Tylik Weeks (4) during the first-ever “Zoo Hoops” Memphis Madness celebration at the Memphis Zoo on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026. (Wes Hale/Special to The Daily Memphian)
TAMPA, Fla. — Tylik Weeks didn’t know how to tell his dad.
Weeks was already a stud football player by age 10, but he was ready to walk away from what looked like a promising future in the sport.
Offense-Defense Football Camps ranked him among the top 10 youth football players in the country. He was already on his way to becoming a coveted football prospect, but his heart was set on another sport.
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Frank Bonner II
Frank Bonner II covers the Memphis Tigers. He is a top-10 APSE winner who covered Oklahoma State for the Tulsa World before joining The Daily Memphian in 2021. Bonner is a native of Indiana, where he started his career covering high school sports.
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