The tallest player to ever play in the NFL was 7'0". He was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the 10th round in 1967. His name was, Richard Sligh.
As for active players, as of the 2009 season, there were 3 active guys that all stood 6'9", they were, Jared Gaither of the Baltimore Ravens, Dennis Roland of the Cincinnati Bengals and Demar Dotson of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The tallest football player ever was Nicholas hugins who played for the South Carolina gamecocks he was 6"9"
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Mark Eaton, 7'4"
Zydrunas Ilgauskas is the second tallest right now and Yao Ming is the second tallest NBA player ever.
This is a difficult question to answer properly. Normally I would say it would be the person who, when measured by a standard NCAA or NBA tape measure, records more inches than any other person on the team. But this is complicated somewhat because the rules generally state that the TALLEST player must also be the LONGEST player when he is lying on the floor and can be measured horizontally. After you have measured all the players in both dimensions, lateral and longitudinal, the one who is both tallest and longest can be said to be the tallest player on the basketball team. Phil
Roy Mcfarland
SPUD WEBB Well, the Tallest American Football player in NFL history was Richard Sligh at 7.0 ft or 213 cm
Kristof van Hout - 2.08m - (6ft10) is the tallest football player in the world
andy dalton
Richard Sligh is the tallest player to ever play professional football. Richard Sligh stood 7 feet tall and played for the Oakland Raiders.
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Derek Fowler
The tallest football player in the world is Kristof van Hout from Belgium, who stands at 6 feet 10 inches tall.
I believe the tallest player was Mark Hendrickson
luke charteris
peter crouch and zat knight 1.98 metres