It's a Medical Miracle as Kenny Pickett's Tiny Baby Hands are Bigger at Pitt's Pro Day Than at the Combine
Keith Srakocic. Shutterstock Images.You can have all the blessings of this time of year. Longer days, milder weather, March Madness, the PGA tour heating up, baseball on the way. Just give me the simple joys of Quarterback Draft Prospects Hand Measuring Season. A season which gives us gifts like this old gem:
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Which this month, in a down year for QBs in the draft, has focused on Pitt's Kenny Picketts and his stunted, sausage fingered, little Dooneese-like, kitten paws:
Well for poor, long-suffering Nate and his fellow Commanders fans, or anyone else looking for a QB with hands that will surround the a regulation Wilson like that photo of Andre the Giant holding a beer can in his mighty mitt, Quarterback Draft Prospects Hand Measuring Season doesn't end at the Indianapolis Dog & Pony Show. It goes on long after the tape measures are put away at Lucas Oil. And it would appear your boy Pickett has been working out:
Source - Kenny Pickett’s hand size received a lot of publicity at the Scouting Combine. His 81/2-inch hands were among the smallest for a quarterback in the history of the combine.
But Pickett received some good news at the University of Pittsburgh’s pro day on Monday: His hands were an 1/8th of an inch larger, measuring 8 5/8.
“The stretches work,” Pickett said with a laugh, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN. “It’s the reason why I’ve been doing them. If it helped getting an eighth of an inch, I’ll take it.”
Pickett can be modest all he wants, but you have to give him credit for doing whatever he's been doing to solve this deficiency in his game. And if you think 1/8th of an inch is no big deal, I'd hate to have you hanging a door in my house. He might joke about stretching exercises, but unless he's still going through puberty, he did do something to add that length. Medieval torture rack. Hanging weights from his fingers. Hand-enhancing drugs the league doesn't test for. Skelegrow like the stuff Madame Promfrey used to make Harry Potter's arm bones grow back. A diet so rich in sodium it makes your hands and feet swell up. Maybe there's song that will make your hands grow like the one the Whos sang to grow the Grinch's heart three sizes. However he's done it, it's like he's been working out his hands more than you'll find on a Zoom call with Jeffrey Toobin, and it's working.
Unless of course, you're some conspiracy theorist who thinks maybe Pittsburgh used a doctored tape measure. Like maybe they made their own where the lines are closer together. Or put English measurements on a Metric tape. (If so, I want one for my own private use, ifyougetwhereImcomingfrom.) Let's forget the slight-of-hand optical illusion the Wells Report used on the two needles that were used to measure the Deflategate footballs to make it look like they weren't massively different in size. So sketchier things have happened.
But I think this just makes Pickett that much more a desirable prospect. Because at the rate he's grown in just a couple of weeks, by the time the season starts, this guy will have Wreck-It Ralph hands and will be holding five footballs in his palm at once. That alone makes him worth a first rounder to somebody. Congrats to him on his medical miracle.