James Harrison remains active on social media and still continues to intimidate people with his freakish strength on Instagram.
Joining the Soup with Coop podcast, Harrison’s longtime teammate Alan Faneca (entering the Hall of Fame this August) says he has seen the linebacker’s strength in person many times.
One of Harrison’s most famous highlights doesn’t even involve a play on the football fan, it was the time he took out a fan on the field In Cleveland.
“He’s one of the best,” Faneca told host Cooper Manning. “You know, everybody loves to talk about James and his strength; one of the best sequences of it that I've ever seen was when we were in Cleveland and one of these guys runs down on the field and he's running laps around the field and avoiding the police and security, and he comes just close enough to the sideline and James takes two quick steps out and grabs him by his waist and his shirt and literally picks him up and body slams him all in like one smooth motion. And my man was, you know, he was evading the police but he really shouldn't have been. He was definitely north of 230 [pounds] in a five foot eight frame, and [James] just, I mean he just snatched him and threw him to the ground like it was no effort, like he was just picking up a five-pound thing of potatoes at Whole Foods.”
Manning also pointed out how Harrison’s strength continues to impress to this day.
“I saw the other day; he was bench pressing 525 pounds at the age of 40-something with no spotter.”
Faneca jokingly responded “He needs to stop.”
“He's a scary, scary human being to me. I'm just generally frightened of him,” added Manning.