You might have the lowest understanding of human anatomy in the history of the planet earth.

Damn, some of these guys have some small hands!

How does a guy who is 6'3" end up with 9 inch hands... that's like gnome sized.

I'm 6'2 and my hands are like 8.5". I can palm a basketball, but just barely.

Maybe I have a skewed perspective then cuz I don't feel like my hands are crazy big but they are 9.6" and I'm only 5'11" and some change.

That's unusually large. Pretty sure the average hand size is like 7.5" or so.

We are measuring from tip of pinky to tip of thumb right?

Like so...

http://www.topendsports.com/testing/.../hand-span.jpg

No, I looked it up. Its tip of middle finger to bottom of hand, where it meets the wrist. These hands seem massive to me now lol

No the NFL measures like the image I posted. According to multiple sources.

With the other measure I'm a paltry 8" dead on.

I always measured from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger.

I'm 9.75 by that version.

Ah, that isn't how the NFL measures. They measure HAND SPAN, which is pinky to thumb. Which makes infinitely more sense as a useful measure.

And now your size measures start to make a ton more sense to me. Your span is probably close to 10"

EDIT: ah I see now that yours are 9.75" That makes a ton more sense.

I knew my hands weren't freakishly big!

Yeah, hand span makes a lot more sense as a functional measurement.

Aside: I have a friend who has some of the largest hands I've ever seen; it's like he has a bunch of bananas attached to his wrist. He's 6'3 but he wears size 9 tennis shoes.

5'11. 9 inches for me.

Based on my experiences on throwing a football, I can see how large hands could help a lot in spinning it.

ok now that we resolved that... doesn't it seem like some of these QBs have freakish gnome hands? 9.08" WTF?

I don't even feel comfortable throwing a football with my hands. I never feel like I can get on top of it. Can't imagine with hands almost an inch smaller.

Damn, I had never measured my hand before. I'm 6-3 and have 10 1/3" hands.

I can spin it, too.

Edit: 8 1/2" from wrist to tip of middle finger.