But there's zero proof that the distance between the pinkie and thumb is related in any way to the strength of the grip. "It was all so silly, but it was a huge ordeal for a while," says Allen, who started three games for the 2019 But it was the NFL draft and quarterbacks, so the ridiculousness was just getting started.After the 2016 Senior Bowl, Allen began preparing for the combine at the XPE Sports training facility in Boca Raton, Florida. With the upcoming NFL Scouting Combine, Damien Woody and Torrey Smith discuss the importance of hand size for quarterbacks. Then he claims amnesia. First, he blames his parents, naturally. Instead, he uses several diagnostic tests and tools, including a $30 grip dynamometer, a squeezable clipboard-sized tool that instantly measures grip strength digitally within one-hundredth of a pound. Patterson says he thought he did everything right. "You're gonna hear a lot of: 'I know what they're telling us over here with all this data and all this lousy evidence, but everyone in this room, we all know the facts. There are always exceptions to everything. ).Running back, offensive line and specialist measurements were taken on Tuesday morning.Jonathan Taylor stood out as having one of the most well-rounded frames among running backs, weighing in at 226 pounds.
Doug Hudson has the smallest hands measured of any NFL quarterback. In 2003, the Patriots drafted Texas Tech QB Kliff Kingsbury, the current Cardinals head coach, in the sixth round despite his 8½-inch hands. There are ones that are more ovalish, ones that are more rigid, ones where the laces are big or tight to the ball. And the fact is, the best quarterbacks all have the biggest hands.
Last year, when ESPN "The pinkie is useless," says David Dellanave, who owns Movement Minneapolis, where he specializes in training and coaching grip strength, a niche branch of weightlifting. "Size alone doesn't really mean anything when it comes to grip strength," Dellanave says. "Next, there's the pinkie problem. I've been told I have pretty big hands my whole life. Even with hands the size of catcher's mitts, Favre still fumbled at an alarming rate (166 times, more than any QB in NFL history and good for 0.55 per game), far greater than that of his replacement, Rodgers was kidding, but to most scouts, hand size remains no laughing matter. "As is human nature, while ignoring the numerous big-handed busts, scouts instead began to lock in on While no one is arguing that a strong grip isn't important for quarterbacks, there is no biological or kinetic proof that hand size correlates in any way to hand strength.
Sporting a red No. I'm about a 9 flat, which is generally last when it comes to starting quarterbacks in the league." Which means for the last few decades, the NFL, a $15 billion business with virtually unlimited time and resources, has been drafting the most critical position in the game based, in part, on a measurement that doesn't actually measure anything.The data resoundingly confirms that there is no actual correlation between hand size, fumbles and passing efficiency.