When he takes snaps during quarterback drills, Stephen Rivers looks impossibly tall, like a basketball forward in football pads.
At 6-foot-7, 212 pounds and noticeably long-limbed, he doesn't drop back after receiving a center snap, he unfolds.
"And handing off, for most people, it's right there," he said, holding out a lanky right arm waist-high to mimic the motion of a quarterback handing the ball to a running back. "For me, I have to bend down more."
At 6-foot-7, 212 pounds and noticeably long-limbed, he doesn't drop back after receiving a center snap, he unfolds.
"And handing off, for most people, it's right there," he said, holding out a lanky right arm waist-high to mimic the motion of a quarterback handing the ball to a running back. "For me, I have to bend down more."
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