Andrew Billings gave NFL fans exactly the kind of clip that stops a scroll cold.
After the Hall of Fame game, social media lit up over a short video posted on X by former LSU national champion Breiden Fehoko, showing the Arizona Cardinals defensive tackle completely overpowering an offensive lineman. The reaction was immediate, with viewers piling on to describe the play as a brute-force takeover at the line of scrimmage.
Fehoko didn’t hold back in his post. “Oh, my god.
Andrew Billings just ended some poor kid’s career. One of the strongest human beings I’ve ever been around,” he wrote.
That sentiment spread fast. “Hands down one of the strongest humans on earth,” one user said.
Another added, “And they say superhumans don’t exist,” while a fourth called the snap “Holy f-k, that’s an A+++ play. That’s as good as it gets,”.
One more commenter pointed back to Billings’ draft stock, saying, “I still remember him supposed to be a 1st rd pick. He slid to the 3rd or 4th, but I remember that draft.
Dude was supposed to be a stud. Maybe something is still in there”
Billings’ path to this moment has been a long one. The Baylor product entered the 2016 NFL Draft with first-round buzz, but concerns over his height and positional pass-rush numbers sent him tumbling to the fourth round, where the Cincinnati Bengals took him 122nd overall.
His career didn’t get off to an easy start, either. A torn meniscus in his first training camp slowed him right away, but he worked his way into becoming a steady presence on Cincinnati’s interior line. He played 47 games over three seasons for the Bengals before moving on.
Now he’s in Arizona on a 1-year, $2,500,000 contract that includes a $350,000 signing bonus and $700,000 in guaranteed money. He enters the 2026 NFL season as a veteran nose tackle expected to start and eat up double teams for a rebuilt Cardinals front.
Billings already gave Arizona a glimpse of what that role can look like, recording his first preseason sack against the Carolina Panthers. At 31, he’s still got enough power to create a scene online - and maybe enough left in the tank for one more big payday if the season goes the right way.
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