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    26 July 2016 - Port Moresby
    News Release

    Fans Expect 'Big' Future for Tongan Mormon Missionary

    Motekiai Langi, currently serving as a missionary in Arizona for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a year away from his opportunity to be the biggest man in American College football.

    Weighing a massive 193kg with a height of 201cm, makes him “perhaps the most physically-remarkable prospect America has ever seen,” according to news.com.au.

    Although he is focused on sharing the gospel and serving others around him, the missionary, who describes himself as a gigantic, muscular teddy bear, is on the minds of the football-crazed nation, especially fans of Brigham Young University. 

    He will play football for the first time anywhere when BYU begins its college football season in 2017.

    “Every time a photograph of him making regular-sized humans look like toddlers is posted on Twitter, fans freak out,’ reports News.com.au.

    Read more about Motekiai Langi from News.com.au

    Read More about Motekiai Langi from Sports Illustrated

    Watch giant BYU football commit run a 4.9 40-yard dash in Mormon missionary attire.

    Photo Credit: BYU Sports Information
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