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Dec 19, 2023 · Your 100 best football players in the world of 2023, featuring Treble winners, Ballon d'Or scoopers and everyone in between
Sep 16, 2022 · Vote up the best heavyset football players in the league right now who help their teams get a leg up on the competition with their size and strength. Photo: Jeffrey Beall
- Larry Allen
- Andrew Billings
- Vernon Davis
- James Harrison
- Jon Kolb
- Terry Long
- Stephen Paea
- Chris Snee
- Isaac Sopoaga
- Bob Young
6’3”, 325, guard, 1994-07
It’s appropriate Larry Allenis #1 alphabetically, because, with the possible exception of Terry Long, he is the strongest NFL player of all-time. Allen was benching 500+ by the time he left college in 1994. And by 1998, dominating his offensive line position for the Dallas Cowboys, he could bench press more than 600 and squat 800. There’s a video of him in the Cowboys’ weight room, benching 635 pounds, then 675, then 705. The spotter behind him has his hands on the bar the whole time and is c...
6’1”, 330, defensive tackle, 2016-current
A defensive tackle, previously with the Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, and Las Vegas Raiders and currently the Chicago Bears, Andrew Billings set the Texas high school powerlifting record, breaking a standard made by strength legendMark Henry 22 years prior. In an official meet, Billings squatted 805, bench pressed 500, and deadlifted 705, for a 2010 pound total, and, again, he was still in high school. He cleaned 350 pounds for five reps when only 18. Coming into the draft, Billings w...
6’3”, 254, tight end, 2006-2019
Vernon Davis, who played for the 49ers, Broncos, and Redskins over 14 years, and collected a Super Bowl ring along the way, wasn’t just pound-for-pound strong. He was also all-around strong. In college at Maryland, Davis put up a 460 lb. bench press and 685 lb. squat. He power cleaned 355 for three reps. At the NFL Combine, not only did Davis run a 4.38 40, but he also bench pressed 225 33 times. That’s the speed of a top wide receiver and the high-rep strength of a top defensive lineman (by...
6’, 240, outside linebacker, 2002-17
Deemed too small,James Harrison, who played all but one of his 13 full seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, was released three times his rookie year and cut by the Ravens his second year. But back on the Steelers, his weight room ethic turned him into an All-Pro and Defensive Player of the Year in his 30s. A workout video in 2017, when Harrison was the football-ancient age of 39, chronicled some of his amazing weight room feats: including 675-lb. hip thrusts, 315-lb. hang cleans, 315-lb. rev...
6’2, 260, guard/tackle, 1969-81
Offensive lineman Jon Kolb played all 13 of his NFL seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers, including on four Super Bowl-winning teams. Often said to be the strongest player of his era, he reportedly squatted over 700. The earliest World’s Strongest Mancontests were collections of athletes from different sports doing odd strength feats for CBS cameras. In NFL offseasons, Kolb finished fourth in the WSM in both 1978 and 1979. Both times the only three men who beat him were heavier powerlifters or...
5’11”, 275, guard, 1984-91
This is a story more people should know. Undersized at 160 lbs., Terry Long played only a half-season of high school football. Afterwards, in the Army Special Forces, he became a workout fiend, packing on 100 lbs. and shoving up 405-lb. bench presses. Despite his lack of experience (and height), after his two years of service, colleges were interested in Long’s strength. While learning football at East Carolina University, his workout numbers continued to soar. In order to prove his strength...
6’1”, 300, defensive tackle, 2011-17
Tongan Stephen Paea, who played for the Bears, Redskins, Browns, and Cowboys, is on this list for one reason: He holds the NFL Combine record by bench pressing 225 pounds49 times in 2011. No one who went on to play in the NFL has done more than 45 before or since. (Justin Ernestcranked out 51 reps in 1999, but he went undrafted and never played in an NFL game.) The 225-pound bench for guys who can do over 25 reps is not an ideal test of upper body strength. It’s like measuring sprinting speed...
6’3”, 310, guard, 2004-13
Chris Snee played all 10 of his seasons for the New York Giants, including on two Super Bowl-winning teams, and he made the Pro Bowl four times. Even rarer, he also made a magazine cover. In May 2010, Snee adorned Powerlifting USAmagazine with the title “The NFL’s Strongest Man.” The article detailed the training and diet that boosted Snee’s bench press to a remarkable 615 pounds. His other big lifts included in the article were a 425-lb. seated barbell front press, 515-lb. incline presses fo...
6’2”, 330, defensive tackle, 2004-13
Growing up in Samoa,Isaac Sopoagaworked out by lifting tree logs and bags of coconuts and by hurling rocks at coconuts high up in palm trees. At the University of Hawaii, he bench pressed 500 pounds and squatted over 700. And at the NFL Combine, he benched 42 reps with 225 lbs., only quitting because he thought it was the record (it was, for years, counting only players who played in the NFL). His college coach said he benched 48 reps with 225 in training. Sopoaga played 10 years in the NFL,...
6’1, 280, guard, 1966-81
Bob Young, who played 16 seasons for 5 NFL teams, had his best years with the Cardinals in the late 1970s, including two Pro Bowls and an All-Pro season. An avid weightlifter when that wasn’t the football norm, Young was the older brother of powerlifting legend Doug Young. Bob Young was said to deadlift over 800 pounds and squat 550 pounds for 22 reps, both of which are incredible now, let alone then. (This was football’s Steroid Era, and Bob Young was an admitted user.) In the NFL offseason...
Dec 31, 2021 · Football's best players in the world this year – including City slickers, super strikers, showmen, show-offs, goal machines and goalkeepers. (Image credit: Future) Jump To: 50-41. 40-31....
- Adebayo Akinfenwa. Height: 6′ 1″ / 188cm. Weight: 220 lbs / 100kg. The strongest player in soccer right now is only playing in League One in England. Suiting up for the Wycombe Wanderers, the English native is still going strong at 39 years of age.
- George Elokobi. Height: 5′ 11″ / 180cm. Weight: 185 lbs / 84kg. His professional career might be coming towards an end, but George Elokobi is one of the strongest players to ever play professional soccer at a high level.
- Danny Shittu. Height: 6’3″ / 190cm. Weight: 209 lbs / 95kg. Although he recently called it quits, Danny Shittu is without question one of the strongest soccer players to ever play the game.
- Giorgio Chiellini. Height: 6′ 2″ / 189cm. Weight: 190 lbs / 86kg. When you are strong and consistent as a player, there’s always going to be an opportunity to play for a soccer team.
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Nov 18, 2022 · The first player in Premier League history to score hat-tricks in three successive home games. The first player to notch 25 goals in his first 20 Champions League games. At the time of writing,...
