How tall was Reggie White?

Reggie White is commonly listed at 6 ft 5 in (196 cm).

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Reggie White’s 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Reggie White beside others

Reggie White is one of the taller American football players we have heights for: Ed "Too Tall" Jones (6 ft 9 in) stands 4 in (9.7 cm) taller and Rudy Ruettiger (5 ft 6 in) is 11 in (28.4 cm) shorter. All 95 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 6 ft 5 in: Peyton Manning and Cam Newton.

Nick Foles: 6 ft 6 in (198.1 cm), 1 in (2.1 cm) taller than Reggie White.

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6 ft 5 in (196 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: Barbara Kinney, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Reggie White, 6 ft 5 in (196 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)