The East-West Shrine Bowl took its measurements today, giving us 630 data points on 126 players. Let\u2019s go position-by-position, breaking down what can be taken away from the scale and measuring tape day from a Green Bay Packers perspective.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m 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\u2019ll be referencing heights as such throughout this article (it\u2019s just so much easier than fractions).<\/p>\n
For example, 5114 would mean that a player is 5\u201911.5\u201d. 6012 would mean they\u2019re 6\u20191.25\u201d.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s a lot of numbers.<\/p>\n
The two big measurements that teams like to pay attention to at the position are whether a quarterback is over 6\u20192\u201d or not and whether they have 9\u201d hands. Among the Shrine Bowl quarterbacks, the only passers over 6\u20192\u201d-flat were Gronowski (6022), Fagnano (6026) and King (6021). All but King (8 7\/8\u201d) hit the 9\u201d hand mark.<\/p>\n
Klubnik, the expected draft pick on the roster, measured in at 6017 and 206 pounds with 9 3\/8\u201d hands. Gronowski, who has some ties to the Packers<\/a>, weighed in at 233 pounds with the biggest hands by far at 10 1\/4\u201d.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Mississippi receiver De\u2019Zhaun Stribling (#186) appears not to have reported to Frisco, leaving Thomas, Bell and Rivers as the receivers with draftable grades on the consensus board at the event.<\/p>\n As far as the Packers go, Thomas very much looks like a LaFleur-era receiver<\/a>, while Bell and Rivers don\u2019t. Thomas measured in an eight-inch shorter (6045) than the tallest receiver at the Shrine Bowl, Cincinnati\u2019s Jeff Caldwell (6046), and also weighed in at 200 pounds.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Bell came in 5112 and 187 pounds (but had 10\u201d hands) and Rivers was sub-5\u201910\u201d (5096) and 179 pounds. Overall, the smallest player at the entire event is Wetjen, who was measured at 5086 and 195 pounds with 8.5\u201d hands and a 72\u201d wingspan.<\/p>\n For the most part, the tight ends were as advertised. Texas tight end Jack Endries didn\u2019t make the weigh-ins, but he did participate in practice today. He is one of the better prospects at this event, ranked 106th on the consensus board.<\/p>\n Yes, Indiana\u2019s Nowakowski is small, but I only threw him in here because I view fullbacks pretty similarly to tight ends overall (and the NFL does too, based on how they line up players officially listed at either position). I wouldn\u2019t make too much of Nowakowski coming in at 6020, 239 pounds. He did have smaller than 8.5\u201d hands, though, which might hurt him. Overall, his hands were tied for the third-smallest out of the 126 players measured for the event.<\/p>\n The draft-caliber linemen mostly measured among the top players at the position. The largest lineman, though, is projected free agent Pettus, who was listed at 6064, 346 pounds and had an 85\u201d wingspan.<\/p>\n The smallest draftable lineman might also be the top player of the game, Duke\u2019s Brian Parker, who played right tackle in college but is expected to move to center, and could be the top prospect there this cycle. Parker said yesterday that he will spend all week practicing at center<\/a>, as his lack of length wasn\u2019t exactly a secret. Despite being measured at 6046 and 306 pounds, he has sub 32.25\u201d arms. No other draftable lineman in this game has arms under 33.5\u201d.<\/p>\n Indiana center Pat Coogan (#140) appears to have dropped out of the event.<\/p>\n The Packers like to take 320-pounders on the line<\/a> now. That works in favor of Roberts (335), Braun (333), Pounds (332) and Campbell (321) but not Fa\u2019amoe (311), Parker (306 – might be an exception because of center) and Wagner (302). Reed-Adams (317) is really a borderline case.<\/p>\n Interior Defensive Linemen<\/p>\n The largest overall player at the event is Jackson, who measured in at 6051 and 328 pounds with 11\u201d hands and an 86\u201d wingspan. Both his hands and wingspan were the largest of anyone at the Shrine Bowl, despite there being 12 players taller than him, including two legit 6\u20198\u201d players (OL Nolan Rucci of Penn State and Riley Mahlman of Wisconsin).<\/p>\n Capehart (6046, 314) and Smith (6011, 328) also measured in at nose tackle size, while Regis (6012, 308) measured in about 10 pounds below expectation. Robinson (5112, 291) was known to be small coming in.<\/p>\n Apparently, Cincinnati\u2019s Corleone, expected to be a third-round pick, was measured in for everything but his weight. That\u2019s\u2026interesting. Corleone was listed by the Bearcats at 335 pounds and was expected to be around that range.<\/p>\n Lucas (6046, 267), Payton (6045, 251) and Lawrence (6040, 247) certainly have the frames of NFL draft picks. It probably helps Lucas that he came in under the 285-pound mark that USC listed him at, honestly.<\/p>\n\n
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