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re: Who are the fastest college football players of all time
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:02 am to KennesawTiger
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:02 am to KennesawTiger
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Willie Gault
Was on my high school football team. I can not tell you how fast he was.
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Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:33 am to YF12
Tommy Banks, fullback, LSU, ran a 3.77 chasing Golden Corral buffet tickets.....
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:52 am to YF12
I think most of the Auburn team has published 40 times of less than 4 seconds
Posted on 11/19/19 at 5:54 am to YF12
Slip Watkins of LSU
Posted on 11/19/19 at 6:10 am to YF12
The Dothan Antelope probably ran about a 2.8 or so. He could outrun horses and antelopes and he regularly outran Model T automobiles.
Clocks weren't invented yet so, there really wasn't a valid way to time him. Aeroplanes were pretty new back then too, but he outran them also.
It was arranged to have a cheetah brought to campus and he was faster than the cheetah.
Pop Warner said he was the fastest person he had ever seen.
Clocks weren't invented yet so, there really wasn't a valid way to time him. Aeroplanes were pretty new back then too, but he outran them also.
It was arranged to have a cheetah brought to campus and he was faster than the cheetah.
Pop Warner said he was the fastest person he had ever seen.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 6:22 am to YF12
Anthony Schwartz
Posted on 11/19/19 at 6:31 am to WaterLink
Alexander Wright is probably the fastest player that ever played football....Won the NFL's fastest man contest every year that he was in the league. Daryl Green is right there with him
Posted on 11/19/19 at 6:37 am to burdhead
4.24 seconds: Chris Johnson, RB (2008)
4.24 seconds: Rondel Menedez, WR (1999)
4.26 seconds: Dri Archer, RB (2014)
4.26 seconds: Jerome Mathis, WR (2005)
4.27 seconds: Marquise Goodwin, WR (2013)
4.27 seconds: Stanford Routt, CB (2005)
4.28 seconds: Champ Bailey, CB (1999)
4.28 seconds: Jacoby Ford, WR (2010)
4.28 seconds: Jalen Myrick, CB (2017)
4.28 seconds: J.J. Nelson, WR (2015)
4.28 seconds: Demarcus Van Dyke, DB (2011)
4.29 seconds: Fabian Washington, CB (2005)
4.30 seconds: Darrius Heyward-Bey, WR (2009)
4.30 seconds: Yamon Figurs, WR (2007)
4.30 seconds: Tye Hill, CB (2006)
4.30 seconds: Darrent Williams CB (2005)
NFL combined records for the electronically timed era (Bo Jackson was hand timed at 4.12) this also doesn’t include John Ross with the fastest time of 4.22
4.24 seconds: Rondel Menedez, WR (1999)
4.26 seconds: Dri Archer, RB (2014)
4.26 seconds: Jerome Mathis, WR (2005)
4.27 seconds: Marquise Goodwin, WR (2013)
4.27 seconds: Stanford Routt, CB (2005)
4.28 seconds: Champ Bailey, CB (1999)
4.28 seconds: Jacoby Ford, WR (2010)
4.28 seconds: Jalen Myrick, CB (2017)
4.28 seconds: J.J. Nelson, WR (2015)
4.28 seconds: Demarcus Van Dyke, DB (2011)
4.29 seconds: Fabian Washington, CB (2005)
4.30 seconds: Darrius Heyward-Bey, WR (2009)
4.30 seconds: Yamon Figurs, WR (2007)
4.30 seconds: Tye Hill, CB (2006)
4.30 seconds: Darrent Williams CB (2005)
NFL combined records for the electronically timed era (Bo Jackson was hand timed at 4.12) this also doesn’t include John Ross with the fastest time of 4.22
Posted on 11/19/19 at 6:43 am to YF12
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Since they have used modern time keeping pieces Joey Galloway has recorded the fastest 40 time of any college football player Who is the SECs fastest player?
Holy crap, a Bama fan starting an off-season topic in the middle of the playoff stretch run. If that isn’t a sign that the Bama dynasty is dead, i’m Not sure what is.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 6:47 am to YF12
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:06 am to YF12
HUGE difference between hand timed 40 YDD and laser timed.
The NFL went to laser timed 40 in 1999. You can pretty much ignore all the times before that.
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The results showed the hand-timed 40-yard dashes were significantly faster compared to electronic-timed (4.90 ± 0.34 s vs. 5.12 ± 0.35 s, respectively). A difference of 0.22 seconds! The novice coaches produced the fastest sprint times (4.86 ± 0.33 s). Interestingly, the reliability for hand-timed 40’s was quite high (Intraclass Correlation values >0.90). The smallest worthwhile difference for hand and electronic-timed 40-yard dashes was 0.14 and 0.12 seconds, respectively.
The NFL went to laser timed 40 in 1999. You can pretty much ignore all the times before that.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:10 am to Lonnie Utah
Game speed...Percy Harvin
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:11 am to YF12
That Oregon WR that competed in the Olympics has to be up there. Devon Allen?
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:17 am to YF12
Leonard Scott
He was the fastest man to ever put on football uniform. He had world class speed. In his prime there were only 1 or 2 humans on Earth who were as fast as him.
Scott played for Tennessee in the late 90s.
His track times were world class time. Think Carl Lewis or Ben Johnson on juice fast.
He had a 9.91 100 meters. Bullet Bob Hayes had a 10.06 in the 100m.
He was the fastest man to ever put on football uniform. He had world class speed. In his prime there were only 1 or 2 humans on Earth who were as fast as him.
Scott played for Tennessee in the late 90s.
His track times were world class time. Think Carl Lewis or Ben Johnson on juice fast.
He had a 9.91 100 meters. Bullet Bob Hayes had a 10.06 in the 100m.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:24 am to lsufball19
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Leonard Scott was fast as hell too
I know he ran a sub 10 second 100 meter.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:35 am to Tpayne99
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Game speed...Percy Harvin
Ginn is up there.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 7:38 am to YF12
Herschel set a world Record at a major track meet that took Carl Lewis to break....
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:11 am to YF12
40yd dashes are technical sprints. I'd like to know who is the fastest, with pads on, running say after 10 yds, for a 80yd td. The fastest 40yd guy could get caught and past by a guy who is not as good on the technical aspect of running a sprint but has overall greater speed.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:12 am to YF12
Christian Kirk had wheels.
The kickoff and punt returns were electric.
The kickoff and punt returns were electric.
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