Football

The opening day of the World League of American Football’s draft at Orlando, Fla., was short on big names but not big people. Eight of the first 19 players taken weighed more than 300 pounds.

Under the new league’s draft plan, it was offensive lineman day, and the teams went for beef, headed by Mark Nua, a 6-foot-6, 374-pound player from Hawaii who was chosen ninth overall by Sacramento.

Caesar Rentie, a seventh-round selection of the Chicago Bears out of Oklahoma in the 1988 NFL draft, was the WLAF’s first pick, chosen by the New York-New Jersey Knights.