Bryce Young’s peak measured at 5-foot-10 1/8, including to debate

Bryce Young supplied one reply Saturday on the NFL’s annual scouting mix: He stands 5-foot-10 1/8 and weighs 204 kilos.

Next query: Will his small stature damage his draft inventory?

Team scouts and decision-makers now have practically eight weeks to debate whether or not to make Young the primary quarterback — or the primary participant — chosen within the April draft.

Typically, groups need their franchise quarterbacks to be a number of inches taller and maybe a bit heavier to keep away from accidents. Instead, Young can be one of many league’s smallest quarterbacks.

He would not consider it is a huge deal, although he was listed at 6-0, 194 in school.

“I’ve been this size my whole life. I know who I am, I know what I can do,” Young stated Friday when requested in regards to the measurement subject.

[Alabama QB Bryce Young confident in abilities, downplays questions about frame]

The 2021 Heisman Trophy winner from Alabama has all the opposite prototypical instruments that franchises search — sturdy arm, fast launch, good accuracy, mobility and a knack for making huge performs, even on the transfer.

The closest comparisons is likely to be to Kyler Murray, whom the Arizona Cardinals took with the highest general choose in 2019, and Russell Wilson, a third-round choose in 2012 who led the Seattle Seahawks to their solely Super Bowl title earlier than touchdown with the Denver Broncos in a blockbuster commerce final season.

And whereas the quarterbacks, tight ends and receivers have been scheduled to do their on-field drills Saturday in Indianapolis, Young had stated he wouldn’t be part of them. The subsequent time scouts will see Young might be at Alabama’s scheduled professional day.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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