Travin Dural found out the hard way that eating fast food isn't the fastest way to get into game shape.
The LSU wideout put on nearly 30 pounds while scarfing down Popeyes during his recovery from a hamstring injury.
"Yeah, Popeyes was putting a lot of weight on me," said Dural, according to Glenn Guilbeau of WWLTV.com.
Even family members noticed the change in his build.
"I went home one day, and my mom was like, ‘Man, you look stuffed,’" Dural said. "So, that’s when I knew it was time for change. I was almost 230 pounds in the spring and I played at 203 last year."
Dural tore his hamstring last November and couldn't run for quite some time, allowing the Popeyes to catch up with him.
Offensive coordinator Cam Cameron even joked about moving Dural to tight end or fullback, scaring him back into game shape.
"And Coach Cameron made a couple of jokes about it," Dural said. "I didn’t like the fullback and tight end jokes, so I knew I had to slim down. I had to stay away from Popeyes. Oh man, I tried to do a no-meat diet, but that failed miserably. That failed miserably in like two days."
