As the tallest student, Brandon Kipper always has been in the back row for every school picture. Now Kipper is expected to boost the University of Hawaii football team’s front line.

Kipper, the student body president at Columbia High in Caldwell, Idaho, said he has accepted a scholarship offer from the Rainbow Warriors. He said he will sign on Wednesday, the first day of the NCAA’s binding-commitment period for 2017 football recruits.

“Honestly, I was looking for the right type of feeling in my gut, and it was Hawaii,” said Kipper, who was on a UH-sponsored recruiting trip the past weekend. “I loved everything about it. I love the coaches, the players. The place is beautiful.”

Kipper is a self-described “homebody,” and Hawaii “is a place I feel I can call home.”

Doctors told Kipper, who is 6 feet 61⁄2 and 270 pounds, he projects to have another growth spurt.

“I probably grow an inch every summer,” said Kipper, who has a 7-foot uncle. “I’m supposed to grow another inch.”

Kipper also received offers from Boise State, UTEP, Army, Montana State, Montana and Weber State. George Mason offered a wrestling scholarship. Kipper was Idaho’s 2016 state 5-A heavyweight wrestling champion. He received All-America recognition in that sport.

But Kipper said his passion is football, a sport he began playing when he was 5.

“I tried soccer and I was terrible at it,” Kipper said. “I tried baseball, and I was even worse at it. I figured hitting people would be something that I was good at. I tried it out, and it turned out I was pretty good at it.”

He had a similar approach to wrestling. With his height, Kipper is admittedly not a typically built wrestler. “I would normally be a basketball player,” he said. “But I like to hit people. Wrestling kind of works for me.”

Kipper said he is projected to compete at offensive tackle for the Warriors. Two of last year’s starting offensive linemen — RJ Hollis and Leo Koloamatangi — completed their UH eligibility at the end of last month’s Hawaii Bowl.