Bryce Young is trying to change the NFL - sort of

When Russell Wilson was entering the NFL draft, the prevailing wisdom was that he would have been a first round pick if he were taller. Russell Wilson measured as 70.6” at the NFL combine. That’s 5 foot 10 and 5/8ths. At that time there were only four shorter QBs who had ever been invited to the combine. The shortest of those was Chris McCoy who played at the Naval Academy and was measured as 69.8”. If you plot the height and weight of every QB ever invited to the NFL combine you get this

Bryce Young was measured as 70.