Nov 30th 2008 12:15PM by Shane Bacon (author feed)
Filed under: Jets, AFC EastI guess great weight loss stories aren’t just relegated to a hit NBC television show. On the NFL Network’s today, Jets defensive tackle Kris Jenkins revealed some interesting information about his career in the NFL.

During 2004 and 2005, when Jenkins played a total of five games, the leading defensive player of the year candidate said his weight ballooned to Mangino-like status.
“I got up to like 420,” Jenkins told Warren Sapp. “Yeah, I was in Miami every chance I got to travel, out there to party and all that, you know Miami will do that to you.”Well, Miami and complex carbohydrates.

Jenkins is now listed at a svelte 349 and has 35 tackles on the season thus far, looking to eclipse his 2003 campaign, when he had a career-high 46 total tackles. He is a member of the red hot New York Jets and hopefully, for his teammates sake, isn’t taking trips down to Miami.