FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Chris Herndon hopes to be known one day as a tight end with great hands. This much we already know about him: He has unique hands. Or did, anyway.
The New York Jets' rookie recently revealed in an interview with SportsNet New York that he was born with 12 fingers, a genetic physical anomaly known as postaxial polydactyly. Translation: Herndon had an extra pinky finger on each hand, and those fingers were surgically removed when he was an infant.
Naturally, once his teammates found out, the razzing began.
"I get a lot of, 'You're weird' and 'I knew there was something different about you' -- stuff like that," Herndon told ESPN.