South Carolina sent five former players to the NFL Combine this year — two offensive linemen, a linebacker, a wide receiver and a cornerback.
And who had the biggest hands of the group? Oddly, wide receiver Deebo Samuel, whose hands were 10 inches measured from tip of the thumb to tip of the pinkie. In the real world, nobody talks much about hand size, but at the NFL Combine, held annually in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, hundreds of professional coaches and scouts obsess over it and other minute details of hundreds of prospective NFL players.
This year, five Gamecocks were invited, and Samuel had the best week of the group, not just because of the oven mitts at the end of his arms (which were the ninth-biggest among wide receivers and bigger than 25 of the offensive linemen’s hands at this year’s event).