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According to Google, 75.9 in = 6.325 ft? ~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk) 05:27, 3 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Yes. NFLCombineResults.com likes to sometimes round the heights to the nearest tenth of a decimal, so instead of writing Josh McCown's height as 75.875 inches (75 inches = 6'3, and .875 inches = 7/8"), they wrote it as 75.9 inches. The Draft Scout page for Josh McCown says 6037. The first 3 digits represent feet and inches as a whole number, while the last digit is in eighths, making 6037 = 6'3 7/8.
Sources for Josh McCown: http://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?i=6059 & https://draftscout.com/dsprofile.php?PlayerId=1190&DraftYear=2002
Another example is Travis Kelce. On his NFLCombineResults.com page, they rounded his height to the nearest hundredth and wrote it as 76.88 inches, which, according to Google, is 6.4066667 feet. His Draft Scout page says 6047, which is 6'4 7/8. His draft selection video shows 6'4 7/8, and there is another video of Travis Kelce saying that he was measured at 6'4 7/8 at the NFL Combine. Right after that, Jason Kelce said that he was measured at 6'2 5/8, which his Draft Scout page shows by saying 6025. There've been some pages on Wikipedia where someone would've taken the 6025 measurement and assumed that it meant 6'2 1/2, since they thought the last digit meant .50 instead of the last digit being in eighths, which makes the measurement 6'2 5/8.
Sources for Travis Kelce & Jason Kelce:
Travis: https://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?f=Travis&l=Kelce&i=10397
Travis: https://draftscout.com/dsprofile.php?PlayerId=83323&DraftYear=2013
Travis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxowOBE1N74&t=15s
Travis & Jason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdAQcCtY6GY&t=104s
Travis: https://insider.espn.com/nfl/draft/player/_/id/30133
Jason: https://draftscout.com/dsprofile.php?PlayerId=76684&DraftYear=2011
Jason: https://insider.espn.com/nfl/draft/player/_/id/27369
An example of another player that had a 6'3 7/8 measurement is Will Levis. His NFLCombineResults.com page says 75.88 inches, which, according to Google, is 6.3233333 feet. His Draft Scout page says 6037, just like Josh McCown's Draft Scout page. His draft selection video shows 6'3 7/8 around the 22-second mark.
Sources for Will Levis:
https://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?f=Will&l=Levis&i=31080
https://draftscout.com/dsprofile.php?PlayerId=1022866&DraftYear=2023
(around the 22-second mark): https://www.tennesseetitans.com/video/titans-select-will-levis-with-no-33-pick-in-2023-draft-nfl-network
https://insider.espn.com/nfl/draft/player/_/id/106325 RevMSWIE500 ( talk) 16:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC) reply
OK, thanks for the explanation. ~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk) 18:07, 3 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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