MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The stories make the man with Qua Russaw. They also do well to define the “freak” athlete he is described (accurately) to be.

The alarm clock goes off for him at 4:30 a.m. most mornings of the school year.

That’s so he can be at the gym twenty minutes later to work out. Russaw put on about 40 pounds of muscle prior to and during his junior year because of that work ethic.

He did so without losing a blade of grass of his top-end speed.

There was a time when folks wondered if he might move back close to home after he saw 5-star Carver-Montgomery teammate James Smith move to IMG Academy last season. Would he hang around without another dominating defender on the Wolverines?

Russaw just played hard. Dug deeper. Summoned the same from teammates. He delivered an eye-opening junior season of 130 tackles, 27.5 tackles for losses and 16 sacks.

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