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ShareNicks May Be Handful for Patriots
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Hakeem Nicks gave up trying to squeeze his hands into receiving gloves when he was in college at North Carolina.
It was pointless.
He couldn’t fit into normal winter gloves. Work gloves wouldn’t fit, either. His best option, it seemed, was to shove his hands in his pocket.
“I couldn’t fit 3X,’’ said the New York Giants receiver. “So they had to order them in 4X. It’s been going ever since.’’
His hands were measured at 10 1/2 inches when he went through the NFL scouting combine in 2009, and when the Giants took him with their first-round pick, coach Tom Coughlin, who came up through the ranks as a receivers coach, knew what he was...
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