Joe Burrow made fun of his own 'tiny hands' in hilarious tweet
Joe Burrow isn’t fazed by the jokes and the scrutiny.
The LSU Tigers quarterback has small hands. We learned that during the first day of the 2020 NFL combine in Indianapolis, where Burrow showed up with 9-inch hands. That’s really small — smaller than the mitts on Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, who is 5-foot-10. (Burrow is 6-foot-4.) But Burrow took the silliness of the combine in stride. He managed to make light of his situation.
“Considering retirement after I was informed the football will be slipping out of my tiny hands. Please keep me in your thoughts,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday.
Of course, hand size doesn’t matter. Murray went No. 1 overall in 2019, and Burrow is likely to be the top pick in 2020 when the Cincinnati Bengals are on the clock. And if anything, Burrow’s ability to have a sense of humor at a stressful moment will appeal to the Bengals, who surely know how inconsequential it is that Burrow’s hands were the smallest in recent memory.
Heck, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and Super Bowl 54 MVP Patrick Mahomes has 9.25-inch hands. He’s doing just fine. He even jumped into the conversation on Twitter to back up Burrow.
Buckle up, boys and girls. It’s combine week. It’s going to get weird.