{"id":498433,"date":"2026-03-02T01:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T01:09:07","slug":"spencer-fano-expresses-openness-to-position-change-after-arms-measure-32-1-8-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/498433\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Fano expresses openness to position change after arms measure 32 1\/8 inches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Outside of Campbell, it’s hard to find tackles going high in Round 1 that don’t have at least 33-inch arms. Rashawn Slater<\/a> measured with 33-inch arms and was branded a tackle by the Chargers. Alijah Vera-Tucker<\/a>, like Fano, had 32 1\/8-inch arms and was moved to guard by the Jets. Peter Skoronski<\/a> was a shade longer at 32 1\/4 inches, but it still wasn’t enough to prevent a move to guard — and he slipped out of the top 10 after often being projected to go slightly higher in the 2023 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n

Fano did a lot of good things during his combine workout. His 40-yard dash time (4.91 seconds) was tied for second-fastest among all offensive linemen, behind only Iowa center Logan Jones<\/a>‘ time of 4.90 seconds. Fano’s 10-yard split was also excellent at 1.72 seconds, third among all blockers. Solid jumping numbers (32-inch vertical, 9-foot-3 broad jump) helped, too. Fano’s on-field work during the OL drills appeared smooth and efficient.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I had a really good time on the L drill,” Fano told NFL Network’s Stacey Dales. “I don’t know, I just enjoyed getting out and moving today.”<\/p>\n

But the arm length won’t be ignored. There is plenty of draft data to suggest that a move to guard is highly possible, and even if he does stay at tackle, Fano’s chances of being a top-10 pick took a hit with the shorter measurement.<\/p>\n

Plus, as Jeremiah noted on Fano in his top-50 rankings, Fano is “still developing as a pass protector,” yet also projects as “an explosive people mover.” That reads like a scouting report that might preclude a college tackle staying outside in the NFL anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outside of Campbell, it’s hard to find tackles going high in Round 1 that don’t have at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68019,4687,172712,8305,6257,99],"class_list":["post-498433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-analysis","tag-combine-draft","tag-draft","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498433","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=498433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}