Center Bradley Bozeman will kick off his eighth NFL season on Friday night when the Los Angeles Chargers play the Kansas City Chiefs. And he’ll be well-fortified.
The First We Feast YouTube channel released on Wednesday Bozeman’s appearance on “Hot Ones Hot Kitchen,” where chef Christian Alquiza prepared three meals for the former Alabama standout that totaled 10,000 calories.
Bozeman said his usual diet includes 5,000 calories per day.
“My coaches are going to look at this,” Bozeman said, “and go, ‘This is why you’re fat.’”
Listed as 6-foot-5 and 325 pounds on the Chargers’ roster, Bozeman told Alquiza that he could bench-press 545 pounds, squat 645 pounds and single-arm press 202 pounds.
Alquiza’s meals included a Waffle House-style breakfast, a fried-chicken lunch and a dinner centered on ribeye, the food that Bozeman picked if he had to eat only one thing for the rest of his life.
Bozeman capped his day of video-eating by doing squats with the 285-pound chef on his shoulders so he could have ice cream for dessert.
Bozeman already was a noted eater. In 2020, he took the 72-ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan Steak Ranch and Brewery in Amarillo, Texas. The restaurant promises a free meal to diners who can consume the Texas King in one hour. That means eating the 4.5-pound, flame-roasted steak along with a baked potato, roll, shrimp cocktail and salad in 60 minutes. The restaurant has a live stream of diners attempting the food challenge.
Bradley completed the challenge in less than 50 minutes.
Bozeman will be at center when the Chargers take on the Chiefs in an AFC West rivalry game at 7 p.m. CDT Friday at Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil. YouTube TV will televise the game.
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During the offseason, Los Angeles worked to decide if Bozeman should be the center or left guard, with the same decision to be made on Zion Johnson. The Chargers decided to keep Bozeman at center and Johnson at left guard.
Bozeman had played guard previously.
A former Handley High School standout, Bozeman got some work at guard in his first two seasons with Alabama before serving as the starting center in the 2016 and 2017 seasons. After he capped his Crimson Tide career in a 26-23 overtime victory against Georgia in the CFP national-championship game, Bozeman joined the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2018 NFL Draft.
Most of his action in his first three NFL seasons came at left guard, including as Baltimore’s starter in 2019 and 2020.
Bozeman shifted to center for the Ravens in 2021 and has played that position exclusively since then.
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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at@AMarkG1.
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