Christian Kirksey, linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, stands at 6-feet-2 but in the recently released Madden NFL 15 video game, he barely reaches the shins of his opponents. 
 
 Madden NFL 15 was launched on Microsoft's Xbox One on Aug. 26, and Kirksey is the biggest topic in social media commentary about the game. In the new video game, Kirksey is not only wearing a Tennessee Titans uniform, he is only a few inches tall. 
 
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 Electronic Arts did not respond to a request by ABC News for comment. A version of Madden NFL 15 is also available for the Xbox 360 console and the PlayStation 3 system. 
 
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 At least Kirksey, who weighs 235 pounds, can laugh at his tiny avatar. He tweeted with his reaction just after celebrating his birthday on Sunday. The former University of Iowa Hawkeye turned 22 years old on Sunday. 
 
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 This glitch of me on madden is hilarious might I say! #lol #laughitsgood — Christian Kirksey (@chriskirksey20) September 2, 2014 
 
 This glitch of me on madden is hilarious might I say! #lol #laughitsgood — Christian Kirksey (@chriskirksey20) September 2, 2014 ||||| Land of Giants The National Football League has always been a place for large individuals but none the stature of Riverside King High school 6-foot-11, 420-pound lineman John "Junior" Krahn. For the 2014-15 season, 55 players who are 6-foot-7 or taller are in the NFL. Here's a sampling of some of the all-time tallest NFL players. Morris Stroud, 6-foot-10, 255 pounds, tight end, Kansas City Chiefs, 1970-1974 Jonathan Ogden, 6-foot-9, 345 pounds, offensive lineman, Baltimore Ravens, 1996-2007 Ed "Too Tall" Jones, 6-foot-9, 271 pounds, defensive end, Dallas Cowboys, 1974-1989 King Dunlap, 6-foot-9, 330 pounds, offensive lineman, San Diego Chargers, 2008-present Matt Hall, 6-foot-9, 324 pounds, offensive lineman, Indianapolis Colts, 2014-present Demar Dotson, 6-foot-9, 315 pounds, offensive lineman, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2009-present Cornelius Lucas, 6-foot-9, 325 pounds, offensive lineman, Detroit Lions, 2014-present Dan McGwire, 6-foot-8, 240 pounds, quarterback, Seattle Seahawks, 1991-1995 
 
 Riverside King junior lineman John Krahn has always stood out in a crowd. 
 
 At 6-foot-11 and over 400 pounds, it’s kind of hard to miss him. 
 
 From a young age, “Junior” often found himself uncomfortable, forced to adapt to life in his very large frame. 
 
 Until he found football. 
 
 “I always felt it’s been a good sport for me because I’m big and I can control what goes on around me,” Krahn said.“It has been my one true love throughout my entire life.” 
 
 Krahn comes from a big family. Literally. 
 
 John’s father, John Robert, nicknamed Rob, is 6-foot-5. His mother, Cindy, is 6-foot. He has an uncle in Northern California who is also 6-11. In the Krahn family, folks get to be Junior’s size. 
 
 Junior, who wears a size-18 shoe, has to shop at specialty stores and niche websites for clothes. He sleeps diagonally on a 7-foot-by-8-foot California King mattress. 
 
 “Just walking through our house, he has to duck because he could hit the ceiling fan,” Cindy Krahn said. “I was giving him a hard time (recently), asking him why he hadn’t got a haircut. 
 
 “He responded, ‘Well maybe I’ll just stand up underneath the ceiling fan.’” 
 
 By the time he was in fifth grade, Junior was not only the tallest kid in his class but in his school, his mother said. 
 
 “He was taller than every kid, every teacher and the principal,” she said. 
 
 Growing up, Junior’s stature forced concessions to get along. 
 
 According to his mother, Disneyland, a family favorite when Junior was younger, was something they had to stop doing a couple of years ago because he “couldn’t fit into anything.” 
 
 Recently when a group of football players went to Knott’s Scary Farm, Junior tagged along. The group rode the log ride. John waited. He was too big. 
 
 Junior also stays home on Friday and Saturday nights. Going out, like it or not, can lead to trouble. 
 
 “People pick fights all the time because of my size,” said Junior. “I just walk away from situations like that. Just turn my back and leave.” 
 
 But Junior is not one to complain. He understands that his height and weight have pros and cons. ||||| (Scott Halleran / Getty Images) 
 
 The largest Web site devoted to the recruiting of college athletes is now monitoring the progress of two sixth-grade prospects. 
 
 Rivals.com announced Friday that it was adding two prospective members of the Class of 2021 to its database, which is either kind of creepy or a sign of apocalyptic things to come. The two to keep an eye on (because you know you want to know) are Tyson Thornton, a 5-11 running back from Springfield, Mass., and Daron Bryden from Enfield, Conn. With no trace of irony, it notes that is a 5-2 pro style quarterback. The two came to Rivals’ attention at the NextGen camp for sixth, seventh and eighth graders. They were “so impressive” that they were skipped ahead to compete against eighth graders. 
 
 Now that they’re in the database, they will be “actively monitored,” Rivals announced. 
 
 Rivals announces it will now monitor 6th graders for football (H/T @JeffDLowe, @USATODAYsports) pic.twitter.com/BIElTQ1Z7Q — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 16, 2015 
 
 Bryden has some experience, despite his tender age. When he was all of 10, he beat Indianapolis Colts backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck in accuracy competition on “Kids Do the Darndest Things.” Thornton, according to Rivals, weighs 167 pounds and has “great explosiveness and surprisingly good body control for a kid his size and age.” Bryden has a big arm, is “incredibly composed and very polished.” More importantly, it did not escape Rivals’ notice that he also has a father who is 6-foot-7. 
 
 It’s tough to know whether tracking 11-year-olds is the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it or whether we’ll all be remembering this golden moment when the two are playing in Super Bowl 70. In an age of “diaper dandies,” maybe we should be happy it took this long and that these kids at least made it to middle school before being spotlighted. This much is certain, though: as the NFL scouting combine gets underway, we should all be reminded that past success is no guarantee for the future, where college success and the NFL draft are largely a crapshoot. So far, Rivals has listed 15 eighth graders from the 2019 class and none from 2020. 
 
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– The Tennessee Titans have a secret weapon this season: a 1-foot, 2-inch linebacker. At least, that's what players of the just-released Madden NFL 15 video game have found in an apparent glitch, which features the diminutive athlete dodging in between the legs of his relatively gigantic opponents. The identity of the pint-sized player is no secret: It's rookie Christian Kirksey, a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, reports ABC News. Why he's been shrunk down to AstroTurf level or suited up in a Titans uniform is anyone's guess—Electronic Arts didn't answer ABC News' request for comment. The real-life 6-foot, 2-inch Kirksey doesn't seem to mind the attention. "No matter how small you are, have big dreams, and live big!" he tweeted, followed by the hashtags #reallyLOL, #glitch, and #goodmessagetho. Kirksey also said during an ESPN interview that his first reaction when he found out about the glitch was "Where am I [in] the game? I couldn't even find myself."