Tom Pelissero

USA TODAY Sports

INDIANAPOLIS -- Cooper Rush doesn't think he has a small-hand problem.

But the former Central Michigan quarterback admits he was happy when he found out he'd "grown" from 8 6/8 inches -- tiny by NFL QB standards -- at the East-West Shrine Game in January to 9 1/8 inches during measurements here at the scouting combine.

What was Rush's secret?

"I looked up a YouTube video of like hand stretching, just random, like for people that type a lot," Rush said. "And so I did that. And it does -- it helps it feel better and it worked."

Rush's hands still measured up as the smallest among the QBs here. But he cited his performance in some bad-weather games as evidence that won't stop him.

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