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His personal max was 11 reps, but he had a much more modest benchmark in mind here.
"My goal was six," Griffin acknowledged.
Griffin clipped his prosthetic hand onto the bar, then leaned back.
This wasn't his brother spotting him 鈥?the one who he was sure used to surreptitiously help him 鈥?but this new spotter was hyping him up and the crowd joined in as did his fellow linebacker prospects.
"Everybody in the stands was hyping me up. I got the guys I'm here with hyping me up. It felt amazing," Griffin said. "I was ready to go. I was ready to attack it."
His chest heaved.
And the counting began.
One, two, three.
"I said, this thing feels like 135. Let's go!" Griffin recounted. "And I just started cranking them out."
Four, five, six.
That was easy.
Seven, eight, nine.
The crowd was hollering by now.
Ten, 11 鈥?this was his personal best.
Twelve.
A new high.
Thirteen ... 14 ... 15 ... 16.
The crowd was roaring is disbelief.
Seventeen.
Can this really be happening?
Eighteen!
That's one more than his twin brother, Shaquille, managed at last year's combine before the Seattle Seahawks selected the speedy cornerback in the third round of the NFL draft.
Nineteen!
One more ... 20!
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On Sunday, Griffin will run the 40-yard dash, do some quickness drills and some on-field testing at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Griffin was 4 years old when doctors amputated his left hand a day after his mother found him in the kitchen attempting to cut off his jelly-like fingers, which were in scorching pain whenever he touched anything, the result of amniotic band syndrome, a congenital birth defect.
Despite having just one hand, he kept up with his twin brother on and off the field.
As dozens of reporters and photographers gathered around him Saturday, Griffin said, "I thought I was going to walk over here and it was going to be like three people."
Not after becoming the best feel-good story of the combine so far 鈥?and by far.
"It was amazing, hearing the crowd and having the juices flowing, I mean I felt it," Griffin said. "I didn't know I had it in me."
Griffin said he's mind-set is he always has to do more than those around him to impress coaches.
"I always hold myself to a higher standard than a lot of people just because if we're running drills, if I drop a ball, they're going to like, 'Well, he dropped the ball because he has one hand.' If anybody else drops a ball [url=http://www.authenticsdallascowboys.com/cheap-connor-williams-jersey]Connor Williams Color Rush Jersey[/url] , they're going to be like, 'Well, maybe it was a bad ball,'" Griffin said.
As a freshman, he couldn't even lift the 45-pound bar, but then he was fitted with the pros ethic and his mom cried when he did his first pull-up.
"It's amazing to see how far I've come from not being able to bench the bar to throwing up 20 reps of 225 and being able to compete with the best here," said Griffin, the 2017 American Athletic Conference defensive player of the year.
Griffin, who played D-line, linebacker and safety at the Senior Bowl, said he's going to try to join the defensive back drills Sunday after doing his work with the linebackers.
"I feel like I could just start curling 225 right now and I'm pretty sure come tomorrow, it's going to be adrenalin just going crazy. I'm excited about tomorrow. If I feel this good doing the bench press, I can't wait to see how I am tomorrow."
Griffin said he hopes he's an inspiration to kids everywhere.
"If I can inspire one, and they can inspire another and (soon we'll) inspire a thousand," Griffin said.
As evidenced by the way they were cheering him on in the bench press, he's inspiring his fellow draft prospects at the combine.
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"That was an amazing feeling, and it makes you enjoy it that much more."
LAS VEGAS — Thanks to Monday night’s 4-1 victory over Colorado, it’s finally okay to use the “P” word around Vegas Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant.
That’s “P” as in playoffs, a word that Gallant had banned from being used during the season as he stressed that the expansion Golden Knights stick to the old one-game-at-a-time mantra and not get caught looking ahead, even when Vegas had a 12-point lead in the Pacific Division.
With an “x” placed by their names in the standings emblematic of having officially clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Golden Knights (48-21-7) will try to finish their historic regular-season on a strong note starting with Wednesday night’s game against the resurgent Arizona Coyotes (26-39-11) at T-Mobile Arena.
“When you start the season in training camp your goal is to make the playoffs,” Gallant said. “That was a goal but that really wasn’t something we were looking at from day one to be honest with you. It’s a great feeling. Last night was a great feeling.
“But, you know what? We’ve still got two weeks of the regular-season left. We’ve got to play hard every shift. We’ve got to play hard every game and try and get more points and be on a roll when we go into the playoffs.”
Vegas is only 7-5-3 in its last 15 games and had lost four of its previous six contests (2-2-2) before Monday’s win over the Avalanche.
“We haven’t played a full 60-minute game in a while,” left winger Pierre-Edouard Bellemare said following practice Tuesday afternoon. “We are going to be playing better and better teams, so we are going to have to find a way to do that, because in playoff time, it’s those moments where you are a little bit not as good [url=http://www.chiefsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-armani-watts-jersey]http://www.chiefsauthorizedshops.com/authentic-armani-watts-jersey[/url] , those are the moments that cost you the most.”
Vegas holds a five-point lead over the surging San Jose Sharks for first place in the Pacific Division with one meeting still remaining between the teams Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights are 27-9-2 on their home ice.
“Having the home advantage (in the playoffs), especially with our fans, is the most important thing that we have,” Bellemare said. “We feel comfortable playing at home and having that extra game is important. So all those games starting (Wednesday) are important for sure.”
This is the final of five contests between Vegas and Arizona, who last played on Dec. 3 at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights won all four of the previous meetings but two of them were decided in overtime.
“We played them a lot in the early parts of the year,” said Coyotes center Derek Stepan, who has eight points in the last five games. “I think we’re a different group in here. I know for our group, this is an important game for us, we want to make sure that we don’t let them get all five.”
The Coyotes, who began the season 0-10-1 and were 9-27-5 heading into 2018, have played much better of late with a 14-7-2 record in their last 23 games, including an impressive 4-1 victory at Eastern Conference leading Tampa Bay on Monday night.
This is the fifth contest of a season-long six-game, 5,862-mile road trip for Arizona, which concludes Thursday at Los Angeles.
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