It's kind of an odd yet remarkable 16-second YouTube clip.
Dakota Royer, a Penn State recruit from Lancaster County, jumping out of a four-foot pool.
As in, he's standing in the pool and then makes one, huge lunge, exploding from the water and ending on the side of the pool, flat-footed, all in one motion.
Kind of weird. Kind of impressive. And, certainly, it's an intriguing athetlic feat, though we're not exactly sure how jumping out of the water to the side of the pool translates to playing football and sacking quarterbacks.
Royer, still a Manheim Central High junior, is being pursued by Penn State, Pitt, Michigan State, Notre Dame and others. He's 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds. He's a hybrid linebacker/defensive end.
College coaches apparently love his freakish athleticism, especially for his size.
Which is why the YouTube clip of him leaping out of the water from a standing start is getting hundreds of hits and is showing up as a thread on Penn State fan message boards.
It's kind of weird, kind of impressive.
And there's even links to other football players and various athletes doing the same thing.
A pool-jumping craze?
A strange football-training tool?
We're just not sure exactly what that means for a guy trying to sack quarterbacks.
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