LT is/was the same size as Von Miller. I'm pretty sure Von Miller holds his own in today's game, no?
Von Miller is faster and stronger than LT ever dreamed of being.
LT would be pancaked regularly by today's offensive tackles, who are also much stronger and quicker than similarly-sized players of the '90s. There weren't any offensive tackles that big (or that quick and strong) in the '80s.
Sports science didn't exist until Tom Osborne budgeted and built the strength department at Nebraska in the '70s. It really started taking off in the '80s, and by the end of the '90s, every professional and most Div I athletic departments had extensive strength and conditioning staffers. Hell, big high schools have them now.
To compare athletes from different eras, one has to look at how they dominated the game, opposing players, and their relative performance to the same position players of their era.
From that standpoint, people like Jerry Kramer, Johnny Unitas, Jim Brown, Dick Butkus, Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, Joe Green, Mel Blount, Walter Payton, etc... stand head and shoulders above 99% of other players.
From any era.
