At a combined weight of 830 pounds … these two college football recruits are setting a new standard for pure, jaw-dropping girth.
Among the most publicized recruits announced during Wednesday’s National Signing Day was BYU-bound behemoth Motekai Langi, who tips the scales at 410 pounds on his 6-foot-7 frame. More like breaks the scales and reduces them to clanging piles of parts.
Check out the bio for Motekiai Langi here –> http://t.co/zFvVwTSXw6#BYUFOOTBALL#BYUNSD15pic.twitter.com/MLKAuuQfJN
— BYU Cougars (@BYUCougars) February 4, 2015
Here is Langi dwarfing a very large man:
Check out new BYU signee Motekiai Taukolo Langi with BYU's 6-7, 265-lb Bronson Kaufusi. #BYUNSD15#BYUFootballpic.twitter.com/Nc4bwkvnDm
— Brett Pyne (@brettpyne) February 4, 2015
The native of Tonga (an island nation in the South Pacific with a population around 100,000) was recruited because a BYU assistant coach saw him in a game of pickup basketball two years ago and decided he was “light on his feet.”
Langi is set to head off on a two-year Mormon mission before enrolling, and the unpolished gargantuan likely would spend a season redshirting before we see him on the field for the Cougars. The wait may not be quite so long for Florida prep lineman NyQuel Alexander.
The 6-foot-5, 420-pounder chose to play football at NAIA school Baker University, according to the Kansas City Star.
L to R: Lakewood's Sekendric Biddines, Ryan Davis, coach Cory Moore and Nyquel Alexander pic.twitter.com/PggEfis8Dv
— Rodney Page (@Rodneywpage) February 4, 2015
“Coaches would like to see this 6-foot-5, 420-pounder lose some weight to improve his agility,” was how Alexander was described in the Tampa Bay Times season preview. “If that happens, he’ll be hard to get around in the trenches.”
And the big guy also plays basketball! His high school matchup against miraculously sized human Tacko Fail (7-foot-6, 270 pounds) was a YouTube study in contrasting body types:
