Weight totals for football players fluctuate often. There are 169 asterisks among the 337 entries, meaning more than 50 percent of the combine participants are at least a half-inch shorter than how they were presented on their school’s roster. A player with an asterisk in front of his name had a difference of a half-inch or more between his listed height and his actual height. Some rounded up even more.Īll 337 NFL prospects are in the PDF below with their listed heights and weights and their heights and weights as measured at the NFL combine. A lot of schools like to round up.īased on the measurements obtained at the combine by Yahoo Sports NFL writer Charles Robinson, some schools round up to the nearest inch.
In many cases, that turned out to be fairly true.
We had a hypothesis that players at certain positions where height is valued - like quarterback, receiver, cornerback, offensive and defensive line - would, on the whole, not be as tall as listed. We approached it sort of like a high school science experiment.
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