Alabama WR Henry Ruggs gets high-fives for hand size at NFL Combine

The wide receiver with the biggest hands was 6-foot-4, 230 pound Juwan Johnson of Oregon, who’s hands measured 10 4/8 inches. The receiver with the second-largest hands was 6-3, 225 pound Dezmon Patmon of Washington State who’s hands measured at 10 2/8 inches.

Then two players tied for the third-largest hands, and one of them was 6-1, 212 pound Donovan Peoples-Jones of Michigan. His hands measured 10 1/8 inches.

The player tied with Peoples-Jones?

That would be Alabama junior Henry Ruggs.

Ruggs is one of the smaller receivers at the Combine at 5-11, 188 pounds, so his hand size is both impressive and unexpected. Then again, it shouldn’t come in as a huge surprise, since Ruggs had the nation’s highest passer rating when targeted this season, according to Pro Football Focus.

Passer rating when targeted

🥇 Henry Ruggs III 154.4
🥈 Antonio Gibson 148.3
🥉 Justin Jefferson 147.9 pic.twitter.com/vMbdYORgkY

— PFF College (@PFF_College) January 30, 2020

As expected, Texas receiver Collin Johnson was the tallest receiver at the combine, measuring at 6-5 1/2, 222 pounds. His hand size, though, was among the smallest of any of the receivers at 9 inches. Penn State’s K.J. Hamler was the smallest receiver at 5-8 1/2, 178 pounds.

Six receivers had 80-plus inch wingspans, with Oregon’s Johnson (81 5/8 inches) again leading the way.

The tight ends also went through measurements on Monday.

Among the TE highlights:

• The top two TEs – Notre Dame’s Cole Kmet and Dayton’s Adam Trautman – have similar measurements. Kmet measured just under 6-6, 262 pounds while Trautman measured 6-5, 255 pounds. Kmet’s wingspan is 79 inches; Trautman’s wingspan is 78 inches.
• The shortest tight end is LSU’s Thaddeus Moss (6-1 7/8, 250); the tallest is Stanford’s Colby Parkinson (6-7, 252).
• LSU TE Stephen Sullivan put up above-average measurables at close to 6-5, 247 pounds, and his hand size and arm length also were above-average at 10 1/8 and 35 3/8, respectively. But it was his wingspan that wowed everyone, which, at 85 inches, is almost five inches longer than the second-biggest wingspan for tight ends.

You ran a sub-6 in heels????

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) March 4, 2017