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Meet “House,” The Six-Foot-11, 500 Pound Defensive Tackle, And Andrew Robison, The 5-Foot-1, 100 Pound QB

Size usually matters when it comes to sports. No matter how athletically gifted you are, if you’re not big enough, or too big, it can put the brakes your dreams of sports stardom.

With that in mind, we bring you two football players on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum. While one is in middle school, the other in an adult development league. They’re both in the news for size reasons.

Let’s begin with John Taylor, or, as he’s known to those familiar with him, “House.” You know why they call him House? Because dude is as big as most homes. At six-foot-11, 500 pounds, Taylor is one of the tallest and heaviest players to ever play football. The folks at Deadspin brought Mr. House to our attention.

Featured recently on CBS, House wears a 6XL jersey, plays defensive tackle for the Central Penn Piranha, and enjoys long rolls down the beach. Here’s CBS’ video on this man-mountain.

Next, we bring you Andrew Robison, who is tiny.

Andrew is a 5-foot-1, 100 pound quarterback who hails from Tennessee. He’s in sixth grade, but despite that, he saw some PT on the varsity football team at Franklin Christian Academy when the regular starting QB went down with cramps. Robison’s father is the varsity coach, but, nepotism aside, Andrew actually showed some skill when he became the youngest quarterback to ever throw for a touchdown in a varsity game. The pass was a 63-yard completion to a junior (who was probably five years older than him) and came on Robison’s very first varsity snap. Not a bad way to start a career.

A video of the touchdown pass can be seen below.

So if you’re counting, one House equals like five Andrews in terms of weight. The over-sized defensive tackle also has a slight 22-inch height advantage on the sixth grade signal caller, making it a sort of Rob and Big type situation. (Only we don’t think House and Robison are best buds, although we’d like them to be.)

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