Country strong guard Damien Lewis pushing his way into LSU lineup

LSU offensive lineman Damien Lewis is country strong — in equal proportions.

The strength is brute. Lewis can bench press 475 pounds and squat 635. In high school, he was a state powerlifting champion. He even offered to do 80 pushups for the assembled media members whom he met with for the first time on Tuesday afternoon.

The country? Well, that’s evident in every phrase Lewis utters in a delightfully thick accent that could only come from the middle of Mississippi. 

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