My guess is you never played football.
No, I played football 4 years before high school but I quit growing in 6th grade and was 4’11” as a freshman and only 5’2” as a junior , not a recipe for success in high school football. I was wresting since 4th grade so that is the route I took. I learned to fight as a shrimp and then I shot up to 6’ and 205 pounds as a freshman in college. It was quite fun to see the confusion from bigger men, probably football players, when I wouldn’t back down and then, if it came to a fight, cleaning their clocks.