Kenny Pickett out to show teams hand size doesn't matter

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Every year scouts, general managers, coaches and football fans eagerly await a handful of measurements at the NFL scouting combine.

The intrigue this year surrounds the breadth of Minnesota's massive tackle Daniel Faalele, the 40-yard dash time of UTSA defensive back Tariq Woolen, and the hand size of Pitt passer Kenny Pickett.

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Faalele (pronounced fah-AH-lay-lay) is a powerful right tackle prospect whose rare size — maybe 380 pounds and 6-foot-9 — dwarfs defenders.

Woolen is a 6-foot-4, 205-pound cornerback who was clocked using GPS data trackers at 22.45 mph at the Senior Bowl. That would appear to give him at least an outside chance of challenging John Ross's record time at the 2017 combine of 4.22 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

Pickett might just measure the smallest hand size for a quarterback at the combine, taking Jeff Blake, Michael Vick and Kliff Kingsbury, all of whom measured in at 8½ inches, off the hook.

All this hand wringing about his hand size doesn't seem to bother Pickett.

"No," he said after arriving 88 minutes late for his media session Wednesday because his medical evaluations went long. "It is what it is. I think the media runs with it more than I’d say NFL teams do.

"There wasn’t much talk about that in all the formal interviews and informal interviews I’ve had so far this week."

His hand size has certainly been on his mind, though.

Like Brandon Allen, who increased his hand measurements by three-eighths of an inch at the 2016 combine after checking in at 8½ inches at the Senior Bowl, Pickett has been doing hand exercises to widen his measurement this week.

"The reason