Chuck Filiaga has always been big.
He stood out among his classmates in school in American Samoa where he stayed through eighth grade. Filiaga has come a long way since then, especially geographically.
He left his home for southern California, then moved to Texas and now is verbally committed to play on the offensive line at Michigan this fall.
“When he was in the first grade, there was an assembly, a performance and the kids were singing,” Judy McCoy, Filiaga’s mother said. “Chuck was in the second line in the back, and the two old ladies in front of me, they were somebody’s grandmothers, and they were talking about him saying, ‘He must be slow.