yes, unless the bochur is taller. If he is not looking at all, he will end up bumping into the player, showing both disrespect to umos haoilam and endangering his own health. Of course, walking outside during learning hours was his first problem.
Why not? the Torah instructs us how to learn valuable lessons from all sorts of animals, sports players can demonstrate extreme levels of perseverance diligence and effort that we could only wish to emulate in our life’s and Avodas Hashem.