Florida basketball player Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 center, recently worked out for the Gators' football team.

The Gators figured it was worth finding out whether the world’s tallest teenager could become a secret weapon on the football field.

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.”