Am I Too Small to Play Football?

[broncoFan!]

I'm 5' 2" and about 110-112 lbs in high school. I want to play football so I can better understand some of the plays that go on with football. I know that Darren Sproles is short and so are a few other players in the NFL but even they are a lot bigger than I am. [Hope I put this in the right section, but I thought since it was football it was good enough to post.]

I'm decently strong, but I'm going to start lifting in the weight room. So can I do it?

[CoryWinget81]

I'm 5' 2" and about 110-112 lbs in high school. I want to play football so I can better understand some of the plays that go on with football. I know that Darren Sproles is short and so are a few other players in the NFL but even they are a lot bigger than I am. [Hope I put this in the right section, but I thought since it was football it was good enough to post.]

I'm decently strong, but I'm going to start lifting in the weight room. So can I do it?

You can do anything you set your mind to.

Conventionally though, yes, you are too small to play football.

[lolcopter]

play madden

[Peerless]

Does your high school have a no cut policy??

If so I'm sure you can be on the team.

Are you a freshman? Do they have a lightweight/heavyweight teams?

[broncoFan!]

play madden

Bleh, Madden's boring as poop.

[broncoFan!]

Does your high school have a no cut policy??

If so I'm sure you can be on the team.

Are you a freshman? Do they have a lightweight/heavyweight teams?

No, just JV and Varsity. I'd obviously be on JV and I'm a junior, just exceptionally short for mah age.

[Peerless]

No, just JV and Varsity. I'd obviously be on JV and I'm a junior, just exceptionally short for mah age.

How about the no cut policy? Your high school have it?

[Papa-pwn]

No such thing as too small as long as you have a work ethic.

I was a 6'0" 95lb freshman 2 and a half years ago, now I'm 6'1" and 215.

Lifting and eating. Stick to it. Don't stop.

[broncoFan!]

How about the no cut policy? Your high school have it?

Well yeah, our school says you can't lose more than X % body fat (I think it's something like you can't go below 5% body fat) but other than that there aren't too many different teams unfortunately.

[jc13]

if your planning to go pro the only way you could make it is with speed.

with high school football it dosent matter everybody plays have fun!

[Apoc13]

height and weight are only a small part of being a good player....can you run? catch? block? can you memorize a playbook? i know plenty of 6'3 220 guys that are horrible ball players

[captainbronco]

I'm 5' 2" and about 110-112 lbs in high school. I want to play football so I can better understand some of the plays that go on with football. I know that Darren Sproles is short and so are a few other players in the NFL but even they are a lot bigger than I am. [Hope I put this in the right section, but I thought since it was football it was good enough to post.]

I'm decently strong, but I'm going to start lifting in the weight room. So can I do it?

in my experience if you are small you better hope your really fast

[broncoFan!]

height and weight are only a small part of being a good player....can you run? catch? block? can you memorize a playbook? i know plenty of 6'3 220 guys that are horrible ball players

Run? I take too small steps. Catch? I have decent hands most of the time. I can memorize a playbook pretty well.

Yeah, but how many 112 lber high school football players do you know?

[Papa-pwn]

Run? I take too small steps. Catch? I have decent hands most of the time. I can memorize a playbook pretty well.

Yeah, but how many 112 lber high school football players do you know?

Maxpreps.com

You'll find pleny of sub 120 players

[elway 1987]

If you do play then the coaches will have you hit the weight room everyday for a few hours to build you up. The high school I went to our starting tailback was maybe 5'7 160lbs and he rushed for 2000 plus yards. The reason I say maybe is he was more like 5'6 but he was fast as hell. Basically if he got open field he would take to the house.