Dodging cows? Making big blocks? Touchdown catch? From farm to football field, Tigers tight end does it all.
Memphis Tigers tight end Matt Adcock (32) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during an Oct. 4 game against Tulsa. (Josh Blake/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Matt Adcock was almost forced to be a football lineman as a fifth grader.
The Raleigh (Mississippi) Youth Program required all potential ballcarriers to weigh less than 125 pounds. Adcock was 130 at the initial weigh-in.
“He looked at me and said, ‘Dad, I’m not going to be a lineman,’” his father, Landry Adcock, said. “I said, ‘Well, buddy, you’ve got two weeks to put the work in to get below 125 if that’s what you want to do.’ He said, ‘Yes sir.’”
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Frank Bonner II
Frank Bonner is the Memphis Tigers football beat writer. He is originally from Indiana but arrived in Memphis after spending two years in Tulsa, covering Oklahoma State football and basketball. He covered high school sports in Columbus, Indiana for two years before getting his Master’s degree in Sports Journalism at IUPUI. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.
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