USC lineman Bear Alexander is pushing to become the Big Ten star the Trojans need
LA TimesEric Henderson barely had settled into his office at USC before Bear Alexander appeared in the new defensive line coach’s doorway. “So whether it’s effort all the time, whether it’s being in the correct gap, playing blocks the way we want to play them and aligning correctly, I feel like all those little things where you step up from being a guy that flashes to a guy what I’d truly term a great player.” USC needs more from its star defensive tackle, if it hopes to hold up in the Big Ten. So through the summer, Alexander spent as much time as he could with Henderson, “going over the ins and the outs of the game, what’s good, what’s bad, making sure we’re putting everything on the table,” Alexander said. Starting with a newfound focus, he said, on “making sure I’m constantly a vocal leader” and mentor for USC’s freshman defensive linemen, two roles he’d never shown much interest in before.
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