Grasp this: 49ers rookie WR has 11-inch hands (that’s big)
May 4, 2015 at 6:56 AM
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Hours after selecting Georgia Tech wide receiver DeAndre Smelter in the fourth round Saturday, 49ers general manager Trent Baalke began ticking off his positive attributes. Baalke noted he's big (yep – 6-foot-2, 226 pounds), physical (yawn), can block (neat), can run after the catch (I would hope so) and then … "He's got huge hands," Baalke said. "Size-11 hands." Whoa. Eleven-inch hands? Are you, um, grasping that? Consider this: The average length of a male hand (measured from pinkie to thumb) is just a tick under 7 ½ inches, the New York Times noted last year. And Smelter's mitts are massive even when compared with the not-so-average men employed in [...]
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