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Darius “Maniac” Leonard 

After his breakout game Junior year against Clemson where he registered 19 tackles. He returned to campus at South Carolina St and someone told him he played like a maniac. It stuck from there. 

Side note: Leonard’s stepbrother is former Clemson and Chargers LB Anthony Waters. It was during Water’s time at Clemson that spurned Leonard to want to go there. He was originally recruited by Clemson but there was an issue with his SAT scores and Clemson decided not to wait for the final round of scores to come in and moved on. 

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I'm a fan of the ones that are a bit out there, but just makes perfect sense. If we're sticking with recent ones, I really like Charlie "Clipboard Jesus" Whitehurst and BenJarvus "Law Firm" Green-Ellis. 

It doesn't need to be that creative though, as some names just naturally feels perfect, like LeSean "Shady" McCoy, Justin "Cowboy" Smith or Calvin "Megatron" Johnson. But for every good one, there's a number of embarrassingly forced ones like Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning, Matt "Matty Ice" Ryan, Russell "Dangeruss" Wilson, JJ "Milkman" Watt etc etc.

 

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