INDIANAPOLIS — Every year scouts, general managers, coaches and football fans eagerly await a handful of measurements at the NFL scouting combine.

The intrigue this year surrounds the breadth of Minnesota’s massive tackle Daniel Faalele, the 40-yard dash time of UTSA defensive back Tariq Woolen, and the hand size of Pitt passer Kenny Pickett.

Faalele (pronounced fah-AH-lay-lay) is a powerful right tackle prospect whose rare size — maybe 380 pounds and 6-foot-9 — dwarfs defenders.

Woolen is a 6-foot-4, 205-pound cornerback who was clocked using GPS data trackers at 22.45 mph at the Senior Bowl. That would appear to give him at least an outside chance of challenging John Ross’s record time at the 2017 combine of 4.22 seconds in the 40-yard dash.

Pickett might just measure the smallest hand size for a quarterback at the combine, taking Jeff Blake, Michael Vick and Kliff Kingsbury, all of whom measured in at 8½ inches, off the hook.

All this hand wringing about his hand size doesn’t seem to bother Pickett.

“No,” he said after arriving 88 minutes late for his media session Wednesday because his medical evaluations went long. “It is what it is. I think the media runs with it more than I’d say NFL teams do.

“There wasn’t much talk about that in all the formal interviews and informal interviews I’ve had so far this week.”

His hand size has certainly been on his mind, though.

Like Brandon Allen, who increased his hand measurements by three-eighths of an inch at the 2016 combine after checking in at 8½ inches at the Senior Bowl, Pickett has been doing hand exercises to widen his measurement this week.

“The reason why I didn’t measure at the Senior Bowl was to have those extra couple weeks,” Pickett said. “Just a common sense thing, having more time to work the exercises. ... Whatever it measures, it measures.”

That’s the same unflappable approach Joe Burrow took two years ago when he tweeted, tongue in cheek: “Considering retirement after being informed the football will be slipping out of my tiny hands. Keep me in your thoughts.”

Of course, Burrow’s nine-inch hands didn’t keep him from going No. 1 in the draft six weeks later to the Cincinnati Bengals, whom he led to the Super Bowl in his second season.

A quarterback’s hand size can be a deal breaker, especially for teams that play outdoors where the weather can get nasty because it could make it harder to hold onto the football.

NFL Network analyst and former scout Daniel Jeremiah said Pickett’s small hands weren’t that much of an issue with teams he talked to until the Senior Bowl when “we had some bad weather down there one day and he struggled.”