Last week I wondered aloud on this blog about why the Patriots listed Danny Woodhead at 5 feet 9 inches when he’s actually 5-7, and why they’re able to get away with it. After the post was published, I was contacted by Chris Gittings, one of Woodhead’s agents, and by Stacey James, a Patriots spokesman.

Gittings wrote: “For the record, he’s 5’7 and ¾”, and no, he did not ask the Pats to list him at any particular height. Good point you make in your article — the NFL knows every detail about the players. Their height is measured to the tenth of the inch, yet rosters are notoriously inaccurate.”

As for the Patriots, James wrote: “The answer to your question is that we accepted the bio information in his most recent bio as accurate. That bio listed him as 5’9″. In recent interviews since we signed him, he has confirmed that at the combine he was 5’7-3/4″. This week we confirmed that with him and rounded to the nearest inch, so we changed his listing to 5’8″. So, for the error of the last 5 weeks, I like to think of it as “The Jets’ fault!” :-)”

So that’s that. What was a small-to-very small-problem is now no problem at all.

Andy Benoit is the founder of NFLTouchdown.com and a writer for CBSSports.com’s N.F.L. blog. He can be contacted at andy.benoit@NFLTouchdown.com.