'Considering retirement after I was informed the football will be slipping out of my tiny hands. Please keep me in your thoughts,' Joe Burrow wrote on Monday.
Social media was fascinated Monday by the size of Joe Burrow's hands as measured by NFL scouts. The size of his hands, ironically, match the number he wore on his LSU jersey last season when he won the Heisman Trophy and a national championship.After stories were written and social media posts shared, the former LSU quarterback had a little fun of his own through Twitter.
ESPN Stats & Information. The average hand size for first-round quarterbacks since 2008 is 9.7 inches. Of those quarterbacks drafted in the first round, only Ryan Tannehill and Jared Goff had the same hand size as Burrow. Scouts say hand size allows better grip on the football. Burrow is still trying to prove that, well, size doesn't always matter when it comes to quarterbacks.
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