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How big are DeAndre Hopkins' hands? Ravens WR is an all-time great at one-handed catches originally appeared on The Sporting News
DeAndre Hopkins has one of the sickest catalogs of catches of any modern NFL receiver.
Now with the Baltimore Ravens, Hopkins makes one-handed catches look routine.
And if you give him a chance to leap high and catch the ball with two hands, forget about it. There's only one way that movie ends.
Part of the reason Hopkins is so special catching the ball? His hands are humongous.
It really started becoming a known factoid when he was with the Arizona Cardinals and caught that crazy Hail Mary from Kyler Murray to beat the Buffalo Bills.
They still get the job done even in 2025.
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How big are DeAndre Hopkins' hands?
Hopkins' hands measure at 10 inches. That measurement is done from the tip of the thumb across the hand to the end of the pinky finger. According to ESPN, only two receivers have measured with larger hands at the NFL Combine since 2013 (Kelvin Benjamin and Henry Ruggs III).
When Murray was interviewed about Hopkins after that incredible catch for the Cardinals, he revealed that Hopkins has an absurd glove size.
Hopkins wears size XXXL wide receiver gloves, and even then, Murray told ESPN that he cuts them to fit his hands.
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"I'm not an expert on receivers or hand size or things of that nature," Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury told ESPN when Hopkins played for Arizona, "but I've never seen a player his size with that type of hand width. And he engulfs that thing. I mean, he catches the ball one-handed with ease. I mean, easier than I catch it with two, and that obviously helps who he is as a player."
Recently, ESPN's Jamison Hensley wrote that Hopkins is tied for the NFL lead since 2017 with four TD catches that required just one hand. He's tied with Garrett Wilson and Courtland Sutton.
Hopkins is as good an example of a player that a QB can figure, "Hey, he's down there somewhere" and just throw it up and give him a chance.
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