[wendy1946]

Somebody 5' tall and any more than about 170 lbs is going to look like a pig and that's a fact of life for humans, chimpanzees, neanderthals, or anything else.

Your basic Neanderthal was built like a sort of a cross between a chimpanzee and an eskimo and might have been slightly stronger than an average human but could not possibly have been as strong as a typical NFL linebacker, much less a down lineman.

[muawiyah]

Neanderthals hunted elephants (mastadons) and other large and dangerous game.

Yeah, they could be much stronger than any modern linebacker.