Diego Pavia Goes Viral During Ravens Rookie Minicamp — See Why

News ArticlePublishedMay 02, 2026 at 11:06 PM EDTBy Megan ArmstrongFormer Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia finished second to former Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza in Heisman voting last December. He was a distant second, as Mendoza had 643 first-place votes to Pavia's 189. The gulf between them was even wider in last week's 2026 NFL Draft.Mendoza went No. 1 overall to the Las Vegas Raiders, while Pavia became the first Heisman finalist to go undrafted since Jordan Lynch in 2014.But Mendoza and Pavia both practiced at rookie minicamps on Saturday. Pavia accepted an invitation to the Baltimore Ravens' minicamp, and one particular clip of Pavia went viral....Baltimore Sun reporter Sam Cohn posted a video on X showing Pavia walking up to his center before backing up to take a snap out of the shotgun. The clip is pretty nondescript, except for one pretty important aspect."He’s taking under center snaps at chest level," The Athletic's Ted Nguyen wrote, and he was far from the only one to notice how small Pavia looked. Pavia was listed at 5-foot-10 1/8" at the NFL Combine in late February. While that didn't stop him from being extremely productive for two seasons at Vanderbilt — he's the reigning