A few months ago, you might've heard about one of Lewis Neal's secondary ventures. The defensive end who led LSU in sacks as a junior described his time spent day trading on the foreign exchange market in an interview with Campus Sports, which says Neal's "at times bringing in four to five figures a week."
Once I took it serious, it helped me out a lot and changed my life going into my junior year of college. [...] There are certain times of the day that you have to trade because of the market. I know when the most volatile times of the day are, so once I got a disciplined schedule I put it all together with school, football, trading and everything.
A national title contender's 6'2, 265-pound player who's considered a likely NFL Draft pick and is said to be developing a potentially more lucrative career on the side: that sounds pretty good. OK, and now there's more (this also includes a phone app, a new investment firm, and plans to get into real estate at some point):
Lewis Neal opened his hair salon Wednesday for free cuts to 1st responders
Also, two weeks ago, the sports admin major claimed to have broken LSU's power clean record, with video of his 391-pound lift.
Also also, LSU has a new defense that should play to his tweener physique, letting him line up all along the defensive line and at outside linebacker.
Lewis Neal is 21 years old. At his age, I was still going to Taco Bell at 3 a.m. to fuel another round of creating wrestlers on PlayStation 2.