Florida’s football coach brought in Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 redshirt freshman basketball player for the Gators, to work out with the hope that he could help block field goals and extra points. “I like the idea,” Gators basketball coach Todd Golden said at a booster event Thursday, per the Associated Press .”I give them credit for trying it.”

The world’s tallest teenager is trying his hand — his reach, really — at football. Florida basketball player Olivier Rioux, a seven-foot-nine centre who played for the Under-19 Canadian national team this summer,

Rioux is the world's tallest teenager and he currently plays for Florida's basketball team and the Under-19 Canada national team.