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The East-West Shrine Bowl took its measurements today, giving us 630 data points on 126 players. Let’s go position-by-position, breaking down what can be taken away from the scale and measuring tape day from a Green Bay Packers perspective.
I’m going to reference a Size Score to rank players, which is really just the combined Z-scores of the five measurements taken: height, weight, hand size, arm length and wingspan. NFL scouts list height in a four-digit number, with the first being feet, the next two being inches and the final digits being eighths of an inch. We’ll be referencing heights as such throughout this article (it’s just so much easier than fractions).
For example, 5114 would mean that a player is 5’11.5”. 6012 would mean they’re 6’1.25”.
Every player who is currently given a draftable grade on the consensus draft board will be noted with their number in parentheses in their size score ranking. Here is the full document with the official measurements, including our conversions into inches and our Size Scores, if you just want to look at that yourself. Be warned, it’s a lot of numbers.
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The two big measurements that teams like to pay attention to at the position are whether a quarterback is over 6’2” or not and whether they have 9” hands. Among the Shrine Bowl quarterbacks, the only passers over 6’2”-flat were Gronowski (6022), Fagnano (6026) and King (6021). All but King (8 7/8”) hit the 9” hand mark.
Klubnik, the expected draft pick on the roster, measured in at 6017 and 206 pounds with 9 3/8” hands. Gronowski, who has some ties to the Packers, weighed in at 233 pounds with the biggest hands by far at 10 1/4”.
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We talked about it in our Shrine Bowl preview, but the Packers really like to have bigger backs under head coach Matt LaFleur. As expected, Donaldson (6014, 234) fits that mold. Unfortunately, Henry (5090, 197) and Claiborne (5092, 187) fell short of the mark, though. It appears that Roman Hemby of Indiana (#197) did not report to the event.
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