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Comparing the sheer size of five high school seniors signed by the University of Illinois to play offensive line next season to the starting offensive lineman for the 1985 Chicago Bears, you can see that football players are, at the least, bigger than they used to be. In fact, these 18-year-old kids rival the size of this season’s Bears starters.