"If you have a kid that runs a legit 4.5 then he's plenty fast enough to play Division I football," the coach from the SEC said. All rights reserved. The former is an every-down back who became a star in 2020, and Tyree is the burner who carved his niche as a true freshman. He was 6-foot-5, 215 pounds with a Howitzer for a throwing arm and unparalleled composure in the pocket. Minshew rushed for 43 yards in his college career and then 344 last year. What people tend to forget is that a 40-yard dash time of 4.5 or even 4.6 seconds is blistering fast. Pretty interesting stuff. So, if you have a 5 second 40-yard dash, you are going about 16 mph. We rarely see any football player voluntarily admit to running over a 5.0 forty because doing so means theyre slow. The average SEC enrollee added 0.07 seconds to his 40 time while in college. purpose: The aim of this test is to determine acceleration, and also a reliable indicator of speed, agility and quickness. The most noteworthy might be the Chicago Bears, who own the No. While the 10-yard split that is measured as part of the 40-yard dash might be a more translatable measure in terms of NFL evaluation, there are still three positions where straight-line speed over the entire distance can be considered relevant. Others have used their amazing "wheels" to become some of the most electrifying players in the sport. Lingard clocked a 4.27 40-yard dash with the Hurricanes as a freshman, according to 247Sports' David Lake, which is pretty unreal. How fast would a cheetah run a 40-yard dash? Auburn's offensive line is not what it once was, and the junior had to deal with a lot of traffic immediately after getting the football in the backfield. Yet even in the speed-obsessed SEC, coaches are slowing players down. He ran a 4.86 second 40 at 298 pounds and generally looked smooth as hell in front of scouts. Hoo boy did it ever transcend past our initial expectations. All of this had to be music to the ears of teams looking for front-seven help near the top of the 2023 NFL Draft. Typically, the timing coach will stand at the 40-yard line. Texas' Roschon Johnson is an intriguing running back prospect to monitor ahead of the 2023 NFL Draft. Surprisingly, the nation's slowest programs did not register such significant declines. Given fast NFL players run this sub-4.5 seconds, Im going to say 55.5 seconds for most average males, adding 0.5 seconds for most average females. It's also going to be interesting to watch him develop since he's a 4-star prospect and one of the top 300 freshmen in the country. From a mall parking lot altercation to a fight with a teenager during a pickup game, these are the allegations Ja Morant is facing. When it comes to star pass-catchers, the Bayou Bengals have churned plenty out in recent memory, and Boutte looks like the next great one. Bigsby, who ran track in high school and will test better than people think, is a fun player to study and has been productive since his first game in the SEC back in 2020. Illinois, whose coach is probably too new and naive to really understand the conspiracy, has two of the three players who were faster now than in prep school. 93 players ran a sub-4.5 second 40 yard dash in high school. Of the 500-plus players, only four players broke a 4.5-second time. All but three of the 22 players the Big Ten sent to the NFL Combine were as slow or slower now than they were when they entered college.