Michigan Pro Day Numbers

I'm sure that is all true, but most people you know didn't just finish four years of football at Michigan.  Let's not compare him to guys who don't work out. 

That can't possibly be true. I'm almost 40 years old now and I am 6 foot tall and 190 lbs. I have not worked out since I left playing hockey competitively almost twenty years ago (and I'm not exaggerating at all, not even once). I went to eh gym less than a month ago for the first time since then with my brother in law (after he pestered me for days) and I benched 150 eight times. I know that isn't terribly impressive for a guy who weighs 190, but given that I haven't lifted in almost 20 years I thought it was ok.

My point is I would now consider myself an "average" male and benched 150 8 times (actually I would consider myself a below average male where fitness is concerned), and yet you say an average male can only lift 135 once....I think I need a link to that information before I would believe that. I was lifting far more than that when I was 15 but I was an athlete back then too. 

I wouldn't say I work out a lot, but I work out regularly.  I've never attempted to do more than 12 reps at 225, but I've been able to do that in consecutive sets, so I'm sure I can bang out a couple more.  That said, I've never been in a college S&C program nor have I had NFL aspirations, so my work outs aren't exactly world-class. 

This was not meant to sound braggy at all, but at my gym there are lots of guys who rep with 2 plates on each side, many who do more, and I'm sure most of them were not NFL draft picks.  I also know guys who play football at the local community college and those guys put up a lot more weight than I do on the bench.  They could probably all do 16 reps on the incline at 225. 

This is much less based on my own abilities as it is on guys I know who I consider "very strong" and I'd have to bet that NFL safety prosepcts are very strong, for the most part. 

OK, I think people are confusing my point.  I wasn't trying to say that Kovacs isn't a strong guy.  The question asked was "How would Kovacs's bench stack up against the guys at the combine?" and my response was "probably not that high."  I didn't say he'd finish last (that was actually Zeke Motta who only managed 11 reps), just that he wouldn't be all that high, and after looking it up, I was right. 

My point was that Kovacs is only slightly stronger than I am (and just as strong as you are) and I would guess I'd look like a girl bench pressing next to most NFL safety draft picks.