{"id":441037,"date":"2026-01-31T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441037\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:59:09","slug":"diego-pavia-measures-under-5-foot-10-would-be-nfls-shortest-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441037\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Pavia measures under 5-foot-10, would be NFL’s shortest QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can a quarterback who\u2019s under 5-foot-10 make it in the NFL? Vanderbilt\u2019s Diego Pavia wants to prove he can.<\/p>\n

Pavia measured 5-foot-9 and 7\/8 at the Senior Bowl, which would make him the shortest quarterback since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger if he makes it to the league.<\/p>\n

Currently, the NFL\u2019s shortest quarterbacks are Carolina\u2019s Bryce Young and Arizona\u2019s Kyler Murray, both of whom measured 5-foot-10 and 1\/8 before they were drafted. Pavia is only a quarter-inch shorter than them, which shouldn\u2019t take him off NFL team\u2019s draft boards, especially considering that Young and Murray were both first overall picks.<\/p>\n

But NFL teams look closely at measurables, and drafting a quarterback under 5-foot-10 may be a bridge too short for some teams. Accurate measurements aren\u2019t available for every player in NFL history, but pro-football-reference.com lists Eddie LeBaron of the 1963 Cowboys at 5-foot-9, making him the last quarterback to play in the NFL at under 5-foot-10.<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt listed Pavia at 6-foot-0<\/a>, which anyone could see was nonsense. Now NFL teams know how short Pavia really is, and they\u2019ll have a decision to make about whether he has the stature of a pro quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can a quarterback who\u2019s under 5-foot-10 make it in the NFL? Vanderbilt\u2019s Diego Pavia wants to prove he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-441037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}