Jared Goff says hand size has never been a problem

That’s been Carson Wentz’s mantra.

Jared Goff isn’t Jameis Winston. “How many did I have a year ago?” he said pointedly. “And from my perspective, it’s two different conversations”.

Most NFL teams reportedly like their quarterbacks to have larger hands – especially if they happen to play in a city that is prone to cold weather – with nine inches being the breaking point.

Goff will reportedly throw at the combine, which I personally think is a good move.

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Although the Green Bay Packers in theory do not need a quarterback, Scott Tolzien will be a free agent and Mike McCarthy’s comments from earlier this week suggest that the team does not expect him to return in 2016.

Goff’s skills and production are easily quantifiable. To throw for 3,508 yards on a 1-11 team in 2013. He’s talked about the importance of game film in the past, so I don’t anticipate a single strong day changing everything for him. “We’ll see if we can get it done”.

“We were awful. We had to really start from the floor and build everything up”. Great in the pocket. I kind of use it as an opportunity to show that I can bounce back and I can have a little bit of resiliency to myself and to my teammates.

As for Wentz, he comes to the National Football League from the opposite end of the spectrum.

While they may be rivals in terms of who will be the headline quarterback of the 2016 NFL Draft, the competition between Carson Wentz and Jared Goff is more about each becoming sharper more than anything. Now, if he had to go in and play this year, do I think he could take his lumps and do that? Yes. “I think for me coming out of North Dakota State, I think the track record speaks for itself as a victor”.

“I know just how much people respect his play on the field, but I think as you get a chance to meet him as a person it’ll even climb even higher”, said Jaguars coach Gus Bradley, a North Dakota State graduate.

“He was just a quarterback on my list”.

OK, then what about a quarterback with, say, 9-inch hands? The secret of good guard play?

“If you would’ve asked me two or three years ago, I definitely would’ve said he has the potential to be a first-round pick”, Haeg said. “He’s got good arm strength; I thought he was very solid today”. I’m not saying he’s Andrew Luck because there’s considerable downside there.

In 2011, when Wentz was a redshirt, Haeg said, “Carson was the best quarterback our defense faced”.

So what does Wentz think of the comparisons to players like Newton and Luck?

The same held true of his combine experience. Goff was the most consistent and accurate quarterback in his workout group during the throwing sessions.

For instance, Dimitroff said, if a targeted wide receiver’s hands measure only 8¼ inches, alarms effectively go off in the ears of Falcons talent evaluators. Only Jeff Driskell of Louisiana Tech was faster.

“Hand size is important”, Elway said Thursday. I don’t think that’s true. Maybe when I’m 24 I’ll be 245. With four months between the close of the college season and the draft, there’s a lot of time for idle chatter.

Question is, where will he get them?

Jones and Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg, Mayock said, are “big, good-looking kids who throw a attractive football, with a lot of bad tape”, making their draft status hard to project.

At the Senior Bowl, Wentz displayed the ability to rifle passes outside the numbers on comebacks and deep out routes.

Goff and Wentz didn’t go head-to-head in Lucas Oil Stadium, but they have been training side-by-side at Prolific Athletes performance center in Irvine, Calif.