Lynn (26) may weigh less than 90kg and be just 1.83m tall, which is a rarity among wingers, most weighing in at more than 100kg.
But Lynn has plenty of the one asset all outside backs need - speed.
He is the quickest in the team over 40 yards - recording 4.58sec, although his fellow winger Fetu'u Vainikolo did not do the speed test as he was struggling with a hamstring injury.
Lynn said he did not feel disadvantaged at being smaller than most wings he faced.
"That is the level I want to play at. You want to test yourself against the best and that is what you get in this competition," he said.
"You've got to have the odd white boy out there."
Lynn, a newcomer to the Highlanders team, said it was great being part of the professional set-up with the southern franchise.
"This is what you play rugby for - to learn about the game, and get better skills."
He starred for Southland last year playing centre, and said that was his preferred position, although he was happy to play anywhere.
Lynn, who has played for Southland for the past three years, is no stranger to Dunedin.
He spent four years in the city, playing for the University club, while he completed a physical education degree.
Originally from a dairy farm in South Waikato, he went to St Peters College in Cambridge, and then headed south.
"I came down for a week in the sixth form to visit my brother, who was studying here. That was enough for me. My mind was made up to come south."
He played club rugby alongside his current team mates Adam Thomson, Tom Donnelly and Mathew Berquist but he never got the call to play for Otago, making it only as far as the B side, and linked up with Southland at the end of his degree.
"I had the likes of Glen Horton and Craig Clare in front of me and was just happy playing. But Southland got in touch with me after I played in the sevens in Queenstown and it went from there. My girlfriend was from down there, so I thought I'd give it a go."
Lynn said the environment in Southland was great.
He had worked as a relief teacher at Southland Boys High School, and taught rugby around Southland primary schools.
He was continuing his education, studying property valuation extramurally through Massey University, and saw a possible future in the property game, not ruling out a return to the family dairy farm.
But as for now, Lynn was concentrating on rugby.
"Regardless of the results of our pre-season games, we have played some good rugby. We are holding on to the ball and scoring some good tries. We just need to carry that on."
• The speed test over 40 yards is used by trainer Matt Dallow, who has a background in training in the United States, which has not fully converted to the metric system.
