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Modern day rugby is a game played enormous physical specimens, but every now and then, you come across a true anomaly.
Think France stars Emmanuel Meafou and Posolo Tuilagi, absolute giants of the game, both in height and physical shape. The Springboks are also renowned for producing players of the like, with Franco Mostert and Pieter-Steph du Toit some of their behemoth-sized stars.
However, while such a player is a rare sight to see in the professional game, to see a guy of such stature in grassroots rugby is even more uncommon.
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Step forward Mr Cameron Skelton, younger brother of La Rochelle and Australia lock Will. Not only is he a big guy, but he quite literally towers over his fellow teammates, making them appear to be children upon first glance.
Once the camera zooms in, you are able to see that this is in fact an adult’s rugby game, and these are fully-grown men playing for ‘Papatoetoe’.
Tino Junior Poluleuligaga is the general manager of Papatoetoe, a club based in Auckland, New Zealand. He explained in the that Skelton is almost 7 feet tall and wears 7XL shorts.
Check out the footage below.
Cameron stands at 6ft 11in tall, three inches taller than older brother and Wallaby star Will, who is already a giant of the game. And it turns out there is a third brother who is even taller.
Will Skelton spoke about his brothers back in 2022 on RugbyPass’ Le French Rugby Podcast, saying: “I’ve got two younger brothers, Cameron and Logan. They’re 27 and 22 this year. I’m the smallest in the family,” he explained.
“Cam is about 6’11 and Logan, the baby, is about 7’2. So they’re big boys.”
“He’s [Logan] huge. I get bullied when I go home,” said Skelton, who wears size 18 to 19 shoes. “Logan stopped playing [rugby] when he was quite young. He wasn’t really into it. It was mainly me and Cam playing a lot. It just wasn’t his thing.
“They were really good players growing up, Cam especially. He had a contract with the Tah [Waratahs] with me back in 2014/15. He almost wanted to split to make his own way and he headed over to New Zealand.
“It could have been him and me as the locks at the Tahs, which would have been pretty cool.”
Cameron played for Samoa in the 2014 U20 World Championships, and seemed destined for a career at the elite level of the game. Waikato Chiefs of Super Rugby signed Cameron in 2014, but after a few years in their development team, he never made it to their senior side. Cameron is now 29-years-old and unfortunately never made it in professional rugby.
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