This Is What Speed Looks Like

[jjpfootball]

40's at NFL combine

DB

Name Time

Branch, Tyvon 4.31

Scandrick, Orlando 4.32

Rodgers-Cromartie, Dominique 4.33

Porter, Tracy 4.37

Grant, Michael 4.37

Wheatley, Terrence 4.37

McKelvin, Leodis 4.38

Wilhite, Jonathan 4.38

Jenkins, Mike 4.38

RB

Name Time

Johnson, Chris 4.24

McFadden, Darren 4.33

Alridge, Anthony 4.36

Charles, Jamaal 4.38

Simpson, Chad 4.42

Mendenhall, Rashard 4.45

Forte, Matt 4.46

Parmele, Jalen 4.47

Jones, Felix 4.47

Stewart, Jonathan 4.48

WR

Name Time

King, Justin 4.31

Jackson, DeSean 4.35

Caldwell, Andre 4.37

Jackson, Dexter 4.37

Franklin, Will 4.37

Royal, Eddie 4.39

Thomas, Devin 4.40

Shields, Arman 4.44

Simpson, Jerome 4.47

Breazell, Brandon 4.47

Bennett, Earl 4.48

[untcampbell]

Has anyone ever done an analysis of 40 times listed in HS recruiting reports vs the same kids at the end of college? Where would you research the times of those listed above when they were in HS?

[UNTflyer]

We heard all about McFadden's 40 time, but why haven't I heard about this Chris Johnson kid?

4.24 seconds??

Edited March 2, 2008 by UNTflyer

[class84]

On the Ticket last week, Dunham and Miller ran through the top 20 fastest combine times since they started keeping official records. Seventeen of the 20 were guys that either didn't make a roster or who had no impact in the pros.

[Green P1]

On the Ticket last week, Dunham and Miller ran through the top 20 fastest combine times since they started keeping official records. Seventeen of the 20 were guys that either didn't make a roster or who had no impact in the pros.

"They have Eli. We have Romo. I'll take Romo." Dan McDowell

[MeanGreenBuzz]

"They have Eli. We have Romo. I'll take Romo." Dan McDowell

Hate to say it but who got a Super Bowl ring first? (I would rather have Romo too or at least the pre-Jessica Romo...)

[Got5onIt]

"They have Eli. We have Romo. I'll take Romo." Dan McDowell

Give me Eli and his one SuperBowl 10 times out of 10. Romo will NEVER win a Super Bowl. Put that in stone.

[Green Crazy]

Has anyone ever done an analysis of 40 times listed in HS recruiting reports vs the same kids at the end of college? Where would you research the times of those listed above when they were in HS?

I just did a quick comparison of Darren McFadden, Jamaal Charles and Desean Jacksons times according to rivals in 2005 and they all recorded faster times at the combine.

[Cowtown]

I think this was originally posted by Emmitt 3 years ago.

The NFL treats 40-yard dash times as sacred. But if those numbers are true, many players are faster than Olympic gold medalists and their clockings should be eyed with a dash of doubt

By Mark Zeigler

STAFF WRITER

April 18, 2005

JIM BAIRD / Union-Tribune

Kirk Morrison tries to improve his draft standing by running the 40-yard dash for scouts in the San Diego State weight room.

There is no official world record for 40 yards.

The shortest distance that the IAAF, track and field's international governing body, recognizes for world-record purposes is an indoor 50 meters, or about 54 yards. It is 5.56 seconds and it was set by Canadian sprinter Donovan Bailey in 1996. There is also a world record for 60 meters – 6.39 seconds by American Maurice Greene in 1998.

But it is another Canadian, Ben Johnson, who is believed to have run 40 yards faster than any human in history. Johnson is best known for injecting copious amounts of steroids and winning the 100 meters at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul in 9.79 seconds, only to have his gold medal and world record stripped after failing a post-race drug test.

Timing officials have since broken down that famed race into 10-meter increments, and Johnson was so preposterously fast that he went through 50 meters in 5.52 seconds and 60 meters in 6.37 – both under the current world records at those distances. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.

He was running in spikes . . . on a warm afternoon perfectly suited for sprinting . . . with a slight tailwind . . . with years of training from arguably track's top coach, Charlie Francis . . . with Carl Lewis and six others of the fastest men on the planet chasing him . . . with 69,000 people roaring at Seoul's Olympic Stadium . . . with hundreds of millions of people watching on TV . . . with the ultimate prize in sports, an Olympic gold medal, at stake.

And, as we learned later, with muscles built with the assistance of the anabolic steroid stanazolol.

Four-point-three-eight seconds.

Then again, maybe Ben Johnson isn't the fastest 40-yard man in the world.

Maybe half the NFL is faster.

[KBJ]

If you take into account the difference in the way these are ran then you would understand why.

no starter about .4 sec, the time starts on the runner

also for FAT times the runner can get almost a full step before the time starts if he knows what he is doing.