Tim Couch with his sons, Chase (left) and Brady, at last season’s Citrus Bowl.
When Tim Couch says that his son Chase is an “up and comer,” pay attention to the former University of Kentucky quarterback.
Chase Couch has put on 45 pounds since the end of his freshman season at Lexington Christian and is now a 6-5, 240-pound sophomore defensive end who wears a size 15 shoe.
“He has been working hard. He works out two times daily, eats 5,000 calories a day,” Tim Couch said. “He moves very well even with the added weight. I am really proud of how hard he works and plays.”
He recently got his first scholarship offer from Eastern Kentucky University. He attended camp at Kentucky earlier this month and has also had coaches from Louisville and Western Kentucky watch him.
“I trained him at quarterback and he played that until about seventh grade,” Tim Couch said. “He was not enjoying it and felt the pressure of playing that position with the Couch name. He said he just wanted to go play defense.”
It’s easy to understand why he might have felt pressure. Tim Couch set numerous national high school passing records at Leslie County High School: most pass completions (872), passing yardage (12,104), touchdown passes (132), and passing percentage for a season (75.1). He also averaged 36 points per game in basketball his senior season. He set even more records at Kentucky before becoming the No. 1 pick in the 1999 NFL Draft.
Defense seems to be suiting Chase Couch just fine.
“Obviously he’s a big kid and once he got his first (quarterback) sack, he was all about defensive end. He is just 16 years old and he put in a ton of work in the offseason,” Tim Couch said. “He knows how to use his hands and runs well. He’s certainly going to have the size to play at the next level as long as he can move and run.”
One of Chase Couch’s first games this season has special interest for Tim Couch. LCA will play Mercer County in the Rebel Bowl Aug. 27 at Boyle County. Mercer’s new coach is Craig Yeast, Tim Couch’s record-setting receiver at Kentucky.
“I know we will be doing some trash talking. Or at least Craig will be for sure,” Tim Couch said. “But it will be a good test for our team because I know Craig will have a really good offense for sure.”
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Does anyone else see 240 lbs. on that frame pictured? He looks more like 200. Maybe that’s an older pic?
That was taken at the bowl game less than month after his season ended and before he started putting on the weight he has now
I didn’t know Tim was that kind of basketball player either. Did he choose the wrong sport to go pro in?
He was great basketball player but he made the right career choice
That young Man is likely bigger than this picture appears. He looks just as big as Tim and I used to see Tim at the gym all the time before COVID and he truly looked like he could have gone out and played right now.
Tim Couch was a great quarterback. He was smart and had a strong arm! The problem in Cleveland was that he had no supporting class, how do you play Quarterback with a line that can’t block….. Tim put his heart and soul into the Cleveland Browns, I was at every home game and he loved this town, but he just never had any support. The front office was a bust, the coaching and general manager was a joke. One of the biggest problems the Browns had and still do today, is that the coaches don’t put a game plan around the talent they pick, they try to change everybody to there system and it just doesn’t work! Do you take a sprinter and make him a marathon runner? Do you take a receiver and make him a lineman? NO, NO, NO Egos-Egos-Egos…. The real coaches are far and few, I mean real coaches… Tom Landry, Paul Brown, Bill Belichick, Lombardi, just to name a few real coaches. Tim Couch should get a metal of HONOR for surviving the Cleveland disaster!!!! The all new Cleveland Browns, what a joke, Tim Couch was a real survivor, he loved the town and He got shafted!! Good luck Tim to you and your family!