The 2026 Senior Bowl kicks off their first set of practices today, which marks the opening ball of one of the major landmarks in the path to the NFL Draft.

The first portion of the week is the weigh-ins, which give us a chance to collect our first formal information on player profiles in a neutral setting. As evidenced by Diego Pavia’s weigh-in (more on him in a minute), team rosters aren’t always super reliable for a player’s stature. So with this year’s weigh-ins now available, who are some of the players who alleviated (or created) questions with their official size measures?

Winners & losers from the 2026 Panini Senior Bowl weigh-ins

Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia – 5-foot-9 7/8ths

Pavia was listed on the Vanderbilt roster at 6-f0ot. He is, upon further review, not. Only one quarterback has gone through the NFL Combine since 1999 that has been shorter than 5-foot-10, former Miami Hurricanes QB D’Eriq King. This is “outlier among outliers” territory for a size profile at quarterback, which is likely going to end up disqualifying him from a draftable grade from many teams ahead of the 2026 NFL Draft.

Penn State SAF Zakee Wheatley – 6-foot-2 and 3/4ths

Wheatley is the rare example of a player who came in bigger than his listed size. Technically, Penn State did have him on the roster at 6-foot-2, but Wheatley is knocking on the door of 6-foot-3 — all of that length does show up in his game and it’s great to have the affirmation that he’s got that area of influence as a coverage player. The Nittany Lions program is a top-tier strength & conditioning program, so I would suspect Wheatley is going to start checking boxes with his pre-draft process. The confirmation that he really is a “big” safety is a good start.

LSU QB Garrett Nussmeier – 202 pounds

Let’s start with this: Nussmeier is tough as hell. It shows up on tape. He’s willing to take big hits in the pocket. But at 202 pounds, he’s not really built to do so in the NFL. There’s not a lot of precedent for sub-205 pounds quarterbacks in the NFL; with Russell Wilson being the most notable of the group. But Russ was two inches shorter than Nussmeier and could run. I was hoping Nussmeier could have checked in closer to 215 pounds to protect himself from hits in the pocket as a fairly static pocket passer. No dice.

Georgia State WR Ted Hurst – 207 pounds

Some were worried that Hurst was going to come in under 200 pounds this week — quite the contrary. This is a nice box to check for a draft sleeper that could have everyone buzzing by the end of the week.

Texas Tech EDGE Romello Height – 234 pounds

Height has one of the best pass rush bags in the 2026 NFL Draft. But he’s an older prospect: he’ll be 25-years old during the 2026 NFL Draft in April. Height played at four programs in six years, pinballing from Auburn to USC to Georgia Tech to Texas Tech, too. And now he’s under 235 pounds. The tape this year was terrific. But the holes will be poked through his resume on account of a smaller size profile, the lack of program stability, his age, and playing opposite David Bailey. His performance this week will now be big — as will his follow-up measurement at the NFL Combine.

Penn State EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton – 6-foot-5 3/8ths, 268 pounds

No concerns on this one! When you talk about a guy that is built in a lab, Dennis-Sutton checks the boxes physically. The challenge for him will be the on-field work and the interviews — but Dennis-Sutton will walk into practices this week as arguably the closest to a prototypical build on the edge. His first-step quickness will go a long way in determining the buzz around him in the public eye.

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