Davon Godchaux is wearing a ChauxDown T-Shirt, which is actually really nice (and available online) and he’s explaining that it’s about his foundation, which is to support healthy eating in children.

So far, so good.

“Growing up as a child, you always want to eat right to get to this level,” Godchaux, Miami’s second-year defensive tackle is explaining.

ChauxDown is a nice play on the former LSU standout’s last name, but it also feeds (see what we did there?) right into his favorite hobby: cooking.

Godchaux cooks for teammates. He had them over for the first Monday Night Football games of the season. And also to celebrate the final days of OTA’s.

“I like to cook, bring the guys over for crawfish boils and barbecue and just things like that,” Godchaux said. “It brings the D-Line closer together.”

Crawfish is one thing. And Godchaux will tell you all about his choice of Swamp Fire seasoning and corn and potatoes. But he’ll also tell you about some meats he likes to eat that were quite popular where he’s from, Plaquemine, Louisiana.

Gator. Raccoon.

Come again? Racoooooon?

“Tastes just like chicken,” Godchaux said.

One time, this raccoon was hanging out in Boynton Beach. We needed a photo of a raccoon, and this one was pretty good.

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Sure. Have you offered this up to your teammates?

“They’d probably be grossed out by that,” he said. “But I’m from the Bayou. So that’s what we eat.”

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On Sundays, Godchaux eats up offensive guards and centers. Like, seriously, how he was drafted in the — well, we covered that ground last year.

But this year, he seems even better.

#Dolphins defensive tackle Davon Godchaux (@ChauxDown) was the team's highest-graded defensive player in Week 2 at 84.8 overall with an elite 90.4 run-defense grade



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“He’s an aggressive guy,” Dolphins coach Adam Gase said. “He’s a violent player. You kind of have to be when you play inside there. He’s a very coachable player, I know that. He wants to do it right and he wants to be the guy in that group that guys know he’s going to get it done when he’s in there.”

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Godchaux said some slightly less interesting stuff on Wednesday about the positive impact of first-year defensive line coach Kris Kocurek, and how these hockey-line shifts of defensive linemen give the Dolphins’ a hot-weather advantage.

He believes he’s becoming more consistent. He’d like to credit some of his teammates for all those tackles for loss he’s creating.

But — back to the raccoon, and the Gator. Seriously?

Well, living here in Florida now — where basically every lake has a Gator or four — it seems like the perfect opportunity to catch some dinner.

“I’ve never done it,” Godchaux said of a Gator hunt. “I’m actually kind of scared. I love to eat Gators. But I’ve never caught a Gator.”

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