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Before Playing For “The U,” The Rock Was a 16-Year-Old Man Child

It might be hard to believe, but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was once an awkward teenager, just like the rest of us.

Before suiting up for Miami (FL), Johnson was a wayward 16-year-old — standing at 6-foot-4, 225 pounds, sporting a mean ‘stache and unable to latch on at any high school.

He posted a #TBT of his awkward teenage self on Instagram this week, writing “all the kids in every high school thought I was an undercover cop cause I looked like a mutated, yet handsome SOB of a man child.”

Those kids weren’t necessarily wrong.