Kyler Murray’s agent reveals surprising number for QBs weight

Kyler Murray is going to be the top player in focus at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine later in February. His agent revealed a surprising fact recently.

Oklahoma’s star quarterback Kyler Murray is committing to football and leaving baseball in the dust…for now.

Along with Murray’s decision to go with football professionally comes a wide variety of questions about his ability to translate his game from the college to the professional level. One of the top concerns people have is Murray’s size, and understandably so. He is listed by the Oklahoma Sooners official athletic site as 5-foot-10, 195 pounds.

Generally, quarterbacks who are 6-feet tall or shorter don’t usually make it in the NFL. It’s not always because of their size, but it’s rare for guys smaller than that to make it.

Players like Russell Wilson don’t exactly come around every year, but Murray’s situation is a little different than Wilson’s was, even.

Wilson checked in at the 2012 NFL Scouting Combine at 5-foot-11, 205 pounds with 10 1/4-inch hands (very good for a quarterback).

Murray may not be 5-foot-11 with his shoes off but apparently, he currently weighs 205 pounds right now. That’s the truth according to Murray’s new agent, Erik Burkhardt.

If Murray is, in fact, 205 pounds, it would be a significant development. It would also be a number he shouldn’t really look to increase a whole heck of a lot. At some point, there’s only so much bulk his body can take on before his body composition starts to make him look more like a bowling ball than a professional athlete.

Let’s say Murray is 5-foot-10 when he’s got shoes on. If he truly does weigh 205 pounds, he may not need to add more than another five pounds or less and just make sure he maintains that bulk while continually getting stronger and keeping his body composition right.

I am certainly no fitness expert but 5-foot-10, 205 pounds would be an acceptable height/weight for Murray and anything over 200 pounds at the Scouting Combine would be a huge win for him.

What would be bad? Anything under 190 pounds would probably cause some red flags to go up for teams in the NFL. If Murray is eating right and adding the necessary strength, there’s no reason he can’t have a career like Wilson’s at the next level Wilson has since added more bulk to his frame, getting stronger over the last seven years and proving he can avoid big hits despite a terrible offensive line in Seattle.

Those who have concerns about Murray’s translate-ability to the NFL should look at Wilson’s career as a benchmark for how he can achieve success.