The NFL is debating changes to the scouting combine but continues to run into interference from teams that like the format as is. And for an already-weird event, that is saying something.
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Welcome to the third day of the NFL Scouting Combine, where dreams are made and quarterback hand sizes are carefully scrutinized.
California quarterback Jared Goff dismissed the first question on the subject and scoffed at the second. “It will always be home”, Wentz said.
Everybody is awaiting Carson Wentz to take the podium Thursday and meet the media. And that, apparently, is small.
“Carson’s a great player”, said Goff, who has done his pre-combine training alongside Wentz in Irvine, Calif. “Me and Carson have been training together now for six or seven weeks”. And with physical prowess to match, Wentz is trying to strengthen his case to be the first quarterback called at the National Football League draft in Chicago on April 28. “I’ve never had a problem with that”.
Nor should it be. He was 14-23, including 1-11 as a true freshman. He’s got arm strength comparable to Andrew Luck.
National stories published Friday asserted Goff stands to lose millions by getting drafted later because of his 9-inch hands.
“Hand size is important”, Elway said Thursday. It’s not just the arm and athleticism that have impressed, though.
Goff on Wednesday was jokingly asked if he had been bullied as a youth because of the “issue”.
He has a 9-inch right hand and he’s comfortable with that. “You better have big hands”. Russell Wilson is 5-10 1/2 but he s got 10 hands.
Brown, who’s running a football department for the first time, said veteran Josh McCown provides the luxury of allowing the Browns to bring along a rookie slowly if that’s determined to be the best route. Go Huskies!Jody can relate to the heartache and the hope of Minnesota sports fans, he has been cheering for the Twins, Wild, Vikings, and Timberwolves his entire life. “Whether it’s quarterbacks or other position players, there’s a lot of talented individuals at the FCS level that can play. There may be teams out there thinking about them at maybe a little different level than we are and we’ll see where that goes”. He must not have liked his measurement.
Most NFL teams reportedly like their quarterbacks to have larger hands – especially if they happen to play in a city that is prone to cold weather – with nine inches being the breaking point. I don’t pay attention to other guys.
However, new head coach Hue Jackson may have tipped his hand at the NFL Combine when talking about…hand size?
So did Cincinnati’s director of player personnel, Duke Tobin. “I think it’s something cool to talk about or whatever”.
Kelly responded: They re measureables. It would be a shock if hand size alone was the determining factors. It’s 10 1/8 inches, for the record.
“If you can’t extend your thumb or pinky you end up with a small hand – but you might not have a small hand”. You come into these meetings, you show how much you’re capable of learning, how quick you’re able to adjust and acquire information and spit it back out and learn and understand. If Dallas doesn’t take the quarterback left over, be it Jared Goff or Carson Wentz, then you’ve got San Francisco at No. 7, and then you get into that free fall.
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Senior Bowl star – Wentz proved to many he’s the real deal during Senior Bowl week in late January. “The turnaround, he said, was “a testament to our hard work.”. The way scouts see it, smaller hands mean less ball security.
