'Coupled' Star: I Was a College Football WR ... 'Hands Big Enough to Catch Balls'

Before he was trying to bang chicks on a tropical island, one of the bachelors on the new FOX dating show "Coupled" was a college football WR ... who played with DeSean Jackson and Marvin Jones.

Alex Lageman even bragged about days on the Cal Berkeley football team -- where he played mostly as a backup from 2007 to 2010.

When one of the ladies on the island asked about Alex's hand size, he busted out this gem -- "I played receiver in college, so they're big enough to catch balls."

Nice.