Tom Brady Uses Photo With Victor Wembanyama to Roast Julian Edelman

San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama has a tendency to make anyone standing around him look small, even when that person is Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterback in NFL history.

On Wednesday, Brady posted a picture of himself with the 7-foot 4-inch French big man towering over him.

"Awesome to meet you @Wemby," Brady wrote. "Incredible young man. Usually I'd make some joke here about how I think I could get 10 and 10 against you, but let's be real... you'd send my jumper into the club level."

But Brady wasn't quite finished: He fired off a (friendly) shot at former Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman, who spent 10 years playing with Brady in New England.

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Tom Brady (left) of the New England Patriots and Julian Edelman at Gillette Stadium on January 4, 2020, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Brady good-naturedly roasted his long-time receiver in a recent Instagram post. Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

"This is how you felt all those years???" Brady wrote, tagging his former teammate.

Edelman's response (as noted by Dov Kleiman on X, formerly Twitter) was a famous GIF from The Office in which Michael Scott informs the camera that he is "dead inside."

In fairness to both Brady and Edelman, Wembanyama towers over most NBA players too, and with an 8-foot wingspan, he would certainly send Brady's shot flying. After all, he's already averaging 2.6 blocks per game against professional basketball players.

Still, Brady is tall by NFL standards. At 6 feet 4 inches, he had the ability to see over the defense and process the field in front of him. Edelman, meanwhile, was just 5 feet 10 inches in a position where height is generally considered an important advantage.

He learned how to play despite his lack of size in high school. As a freshman, Edelman wrote in his memoir Relentless, he was "five feet tall and 105 pounds," and that he often cried to his parents about his lack of size. Still, Edelman went on to star at Woodside High, collecting 2,237 yards and 29 touchdowns passing.

"After all the sh** I'd listened to about being too small and all the pounding I'd taken when everyone was going and I wasn't, I felt pretty good about that," Edelman writes.

Edelman, of course, got the last laugh over anyone who genuinely made fun of his height when he was younger: He and Brady won three Super Bowls together, and Edelman was named the MVP of Super Bowl 53 when he collected 10 catches and 141 yards as the Patriots defeated the Rams 13-3.

Still, Brady might have to arrange an Instagram photoshoot with Edelman and Wembanyama now. Also, Brady might need to be careful not to get Wembanyama in trouble with the NBA and the Spurs for posing in what appears to be a liquor room. He's only 19, after all.

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