How Much Weight Does a High School LIneman Have to Weigh?

It does if the kid has the frame for it (i.e. 6-6 or bigger). That height isn’t common either, but the chances of finding kids like that are better at big high schools.

 

One of Georgia's large school state champs, which will have a half-dozen or so signing D-I scholarships on Wednesday, had a starting D-lineman hitting the scale during the playoffs at 415. And that was down from 450.

 

It might be easy for a 6'6" a kid to go to 290 but it is not healthy. That would put his BMI over 30.

 

Depends on if added mass is muscle vs. fat.

Also, BMI is probably the farthest thing from the mind of a 17-year-old, his coaches or his trainers.

 

Is it really possible for a kid to put on that much muscle by 18 just by lifting constantly. I don't.

I know BMI is the farthest thing from the mind of a 17 yar old, his coaches or trainers. But I think that a kid bumping up to a BMI over 30 is going to quite likely have serious weight problems when he stops lifting and exercising. That is one of the chiefreasons that I am glad my son did not play high school football.

 

So you're insinuating that at least 75 percent of the high school football programs in America -- because linemen that size are more the norm than the exception these days at the largest schools -- have implemented highly organized steroid regimens that everyone involved with is able to keep a secret? Not as a random rogue individual or program, which might be believable, but as an industry standard?

 

I am saying that kids that big generally are carrying large amounts body fat which will lead to future health problems. All that extra weight is not muscle. And it is one reason that I am glad that my kid, for example,

 

Are you aware of anyone has anyone done any research on the issue? I have seen a lot of articles on CTE but enver an article on this. That is why I posed the question. We all agree that kids have gotten bigger but no one seems to know why. I think that that would be an interesting feature (I grant that very few sportswriters are given the time to write such features anymore).

And another question. If you had a 15 year old kid with a BMI of 25 who was slightly pudgy and the coaches wanted him to increase his body weight 15% would you agree?

 

Jerry Kramer played at 6-3, 245, Alex Karras, 6-2, 248.

 

Biggest kid at my high school in the mid-‘80s went 6-5, 230. Steroids were rampant among my school’s football players, but it wasn’t the bigger kids doing them. It was guys like the dumbass who as a junior was a 5-9, 145-pound running back who could run a 10.8 100-meter dash but came back as a senior at 5-9, 195 and was barely fast enough to be a first-string defensive end.

 

In the Super Bowl I the Chiefs were noted for theri huge lineman. The biggest, Jim Tyer, was 6'6",280.

 

Rhode Island leads the country in 200-pound linemen. You'll see 200-220 on most teams with a guy like 250+ on a roster. One of our teams has a 6-7, 325-pounder who's getting recruited by everyone in the country and his high school film is comical. It's the scene from the Blind Side over and over again, just pancaking poor 180 DEs and LBs.