NFL is about acceleration, not necessarily speed. If it were 100m, more, but over 200m almost none.
Agreed. Big difference between what you do when you're actually training as a track athlete and when you become a full-time professional football player...
Maybe 20 guys could actually hang with her and out of those maybe five would win...
She would beat 90-98% of The Linemen, Linebackers, About 70-80% of the Quareterbacks, Kickers Punt and PAT Kickers and Fullbacks, 5% of the Defensive Backs , Wide Recievers and Running Backs and Kickoff and Punt Returners This is The NFL,
At a Lower level , Most High schools only have 10-20 kids who would beat her 200 time. I am talking about good High School Football Teans Like Mater Dei, Because Football ia a lot more popular than Track There are Many High Scoolers about as fast as Erriyon Knighton in the 200 who never run High School Track
She would beat 90-98% of The Linemen, Linebackers, About 70-80% of the Quareterbacks, Kickers Punt and PAT Kickers and Fullbacks, 5% of the Defensive Backs , Wide Recievers and Running Backs and Kickoff and Punt Returners This is The NFL,
^ this. Question is clearly not about the fat/slow guys.
Vast majority of the speed-oriented players are doing high-volume, short-intervel reps both during games and in practice. Yes they are used to going 30-50m at most. No they are not incapable of holding it near that for 200m if called upon to do it. Almost noone is, it's just not how the body works.
Any speed player with at least 10 mid speed, which is probably all of them, would have little to no trouble getting 21 mid or better in a 200. They didn't get that fast without learning how to hold form!
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NFL is about acceleration, not necessarily speed. If it were 100m, more, but over 200m almost none.
Agreed. Big difference between what you do when you're actually training as a track athlete and when you become a full-time professional football player...
Maybe 20 guys could actually hang with her and out of those maybe five would win...
If you took the skill players (DBs and WRs) and trained them specifically for the 200m, maybe 10% of them could beat her. Their high school track times show their potential, but they train for football in a way that makes them less capable of sprinting (obviously, way more earning potential in NFL than track…)
I looked up the NFL combine 40-yd dash records. (NFL scouts like acceleration as mentioned so they don’t do longer sprints). Fastest time was 4.22 seconds. A yard is 90 cm, so that’s 36 meters. 200/36 x 4.22 sec = 23.44 seconds. Seems unlikely any NFL player could hang with her unless they radically changed their body.
Agreed. Big difference between what you do when you're actually training as a track athlete and when you become a full-time professional football player...
Maybe 20 guys could actually hang with her and out of those maybe five would win...
If you took the skill players (DBs and WRs) and trained them specifically for the 200m, maybe 10% of them could beat her. Their high school track times show their potential, but they train for football in a way that makes them less capable of sprinting (obviously, way more earning potential in NFL than track…)
I looked up the NFL combine 40-yd dash records. (NFL scouts like acceleration as mentioned so they don’t do longer sprints). Fastest time was 4.22 seconds. A yard is 90 cm, so that’s 36 meters. 200/36 x 4.22 sec = 23.44 seconds. Seems unlikely any NFL player could hang with her unless they radically changed their body.
That is so stupid. The acceleration is the slowest part of the run. They don’t even hit top speed at 40 yards.
If you took the skill players (DBs and WRs) and trained them specifically for the 200m, maybe 10% of them could beat her. Their high school track times show their potential, but they train for football in a way that makes them less capable of sprinting (obviously, way more earning potential in NFL than track…)
I looked up the NFL combine 40-yd dash records. (NFL scouts like acceleration as mentioned so they don’t do longer sprints). Fastest time was 4.22 seconds. A yard is 90 cm, so that’s 36 meters. 200/36 x 4.22 sec = 23.44 seconds. Seems unlikely any NFL player could hang with her unless they radically changed their body.
That is so stupid. The acceleration is the slowest part of the run. They don’t even hit top speed at 40 yards.
That’s what I said. The NFL is only concerned with acceleration, which is why they test it in the combine. I converted that speed to 200, and I’m going to assume with proper training 10% of those players could take a few seconds off that. If the OPs question was how many players can run faster today without training, the answer is zero. They’re specifically training acceleration and power
That is so stupid. The acceleration is the slowest part of the run. They don’t even hit top speed at 40 yards.
That’s what I said. The NFL is only concerned with acceleration, which is why they test it in the combine. I converted that speed to 200, and I’m going to assume with proper training 10% of those players could take a few seconds off that. If the OPs question was how many players can run faster today without training, the answer is zero. They’re specifically training acceleration and power
Your logic is getting dumber by the second. Bolt’s first 40m of his world record was 4.64. So by your logic he can only run 23.2 for the 200.
look at it this way, whoever still doesn't understand. A 10.5 guy in an NFL speed position has generally ran track in high school. Football in the fall, track in the spring.
As the fastest guy on the team, they ran both the 100 and 200. Might have been picked for 400 and 400 relay too. But at the bare minimum, their coach would not have wasted them on just the 100m.
They know how to run a 200m race, have done it lots of times, and aren't going to lose the ability just by refocusing on short sprints. If they still have 10.5 speed, then they have 21.5 speed easy, at worst.
I think y’all are way overrating the NFL players. Maybe there are a couple with a track background that still have crazy speed, and I’m sure a few more could do it with a few months of track training. But no notice, they’re just racing tomorrow—I wouldn’t be surprised if she would beat every single player. Most of them would lose a half a second or more on with a bad reaction time and terrible block start right off the bat.
I think y’all are way overrating the NFL players. Maybe there are a couple with a track background that still have crazy speed, and I’m sure a few more could do it with a few months of track training. But no notice, they’re just racing tomorrow—I wouldn’t be surprised if she would beat every single player. Most of them would lose a half a second or more on with a bad reaction time and terrible block start right off the bat.
I think it's the other way around. 80% of NFL WRs/CBs would beat her. Someone above mentioned 10:5 above, that seems about right, most off of these guys can run a 10.5 100. 4.5-40 is a slow corner, 4.6 is as slow WR, there aren't many of these in the league.
I think y’all are way overrating the NFL players. Maybe there are a couple with a track background that still have crazy speed, and I’m sure a few more could do it with a few months of track training. But no notice, they’re just racing tomorrow—I wouldn’t be surprised if she would beat every single player. Most of them would lose a half a second or more on with a bad reaction time and terrible block start right off the bat.
I think it's the other way around. 80% of NFL WRs/CBs would beat her. Someone above mentioned 10:5 above, that seems about right, most off of these guys can run a 10.5 100. 4.5-40 is a slow corner, 4.6 is as slow WR, there aren't many of these in the league.
This. The NFL has most of the fastest runners in the US. Any top level D1 football recruit that was also a top high school sprinter went to college to play football, not track. Talent follows fortune and glory. Football has it, track doesn’t. The D1 sprinters are the football players that didn’t get scholarship offers.
More like 99%. Those guys are explosive, 200 meters is far for them. They'll be tying up halfway through the race. DK Metcalf is supposed to be the fastest or second fastest guy in the NFL and he ran like 10.26 last year in the 100, there are probably only 30 guys who can run under 10.6. And now we're talking the 200 where they won't be able to carry that speed very well. So I'll say about 99% couldn't beat her.
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