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Baylor’s 220-Pound QB Gerry Bohanon Squatting 610 Pounds Is Straight-Up Insanity

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  • Gerry Bohanon is a quarterback, but that isn’t stopping him from sitting atop the charts in Baylor’s weight room.
  • He recently squatted the equivalent of three Gerry Bohanons and it is absolutely ridiculous.
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Baylor football is coming off of the best year in program history. The Bears capped a 12-win season with a Sugar Bowl win and head coach Dave Aranda is building a legitimate, consistent contender in Waco.

At the forefront of any program is, of course, the quarterback. Although Baylor played a little bit of roulette at the position in 2021, senior Gerry Bohanon is expected to stay atop the depth chart for 2022.

In the meantime, he is putting in that work.

Bohanon, who stands 6-foot-3, 221 pounds, is already big dude. He started 12 of 14 games, finished the season 173-225 for 2,200 with 18 touchdown passes and rushed for 323 yards and nine touchdowns, which earned him an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention nod.

Now, during the offseason, he is tearing it up in the weight room.

On Thursday afternoon, Baylor quarterbacks coach Shawn Bell posted videos of his quarterbacks on the squat rack. Blake Shapen went first and joined the 500-pound club, which is nothing to scoff at by any means.

However,  Bohanon stepped into the weight rack, stepped under the bar, and raised his quarterback room counterpart by more than 100 pounds. He added a full plate — and some — to both sides, marking six 45-pound plates on both sides plus two smaller plates on either end

Bohanon proceeded to take down a 610-pound squat with his teammates losing their minds around him. Insane.

By putting up that massive number as a quarterback, Bohanon squatted the equivalent of two and three-quarter Gerry Bohanons. 610/221=2.76.

A few years ago, Jalen Hurts broke the internet by squatting 600 pounds. Bohanon not only called his former Big-12 counterpart but raised him by 10.

To put that in perspective, Oregon defensive lineman Henry Mondeaux squatted a team-high 635 pounds a few years back — as a defensive lineman. Bohanon — a quarterback — is only 25 pounds off of that mark. Ridiculous.