Still amazed that the linebacker Vernon Davis could run 4.38 at 250 pounds.
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joalturn wrote:
ESPN has him listed as a RB. He’s also a bit tall and underweight for that position (6’1 185 lbs). I wonder how he sees his athletic future considering he had 2 carries last season. It seems like most football/track guys tend to prefer the gridiron regardless of the discrepancy between football production and track results. Just look at Devon Allen.
They're moving him to WR. He's a 4-star recruit (also recruited by LSU, Georgia & Miami), so he should have been starting his freshman year or at the very least in the rotation.
Nice overview of his athletic background:
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not where I'm from wrote:
fish backwards wrote:
The 400m and football seem to contradict each other in my opinion. Very often do you see good 100/200 football players, but the higher you go up in the distance, the more weight tends to matter. Also, football favors high top end speed for very short periods of time (generally significantly less than 100m), so it's interesting to see a football players in a speed endurance event. Makes me think he should hang up the cleats and focus on the oval.
My HS had a solid 4x4. I think they ran 4:17 or 4:16, well over a decade ago. All four of them were football players, all of them were receivers. One of them also ran the 800 in 1:58. The football program was pretty serious, they often trained twice a day and most of those guys were crazy fit.
Our 4x100 was almost all football players as well, a mix of receivers and RBs.
NWLa once won the NCAA 4x1 running soon to be NFLers.....Joe Delaney, Victor Otis and Mark Duper (Mario Johnson)
Oregon ran a World Record 4x1 running soon to be pro footballers.....Jerry Tarr***, Mike Gaechter and Mel Renfro (Harry Jerome)
*** top ranked 110hh in the world
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whawha wrote:
Easy. Xavier Carter
I forgot Carter played football, should have listed him.
But.......thinking his PR was 44,5ish
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Elzio Dennick wrote:
whawha wrote:
Easy. Xavier Carter
I forgot Carter played football, should have listed him.
But.......thinking his PR was 44,5ish
You would be correct - 44.53.
His 200 much more impressive - 19.63.
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Sally Vix wrote:
Elzio Dennick wrote:
I forgot Carter played football, should have listed him.
But.......thinking his PR was 44,5ish
You would be correct - 44.53.
His 200 much more impressive - 19.63.
Thanks~
He ran that 19.63 in 2006, in 2005 he had a 20.02 PR, that has gotta be the most dramatic one season improvement ever at the world class level.
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As we know the NFL has had TONS of world class 100/200/hurdlers/long jumpers but really not all that at 400m. Would like to see this guy make it to that level, becoming the fastest NFL 400m cat.
Listening to the tv football guys trying to talk track is always a trip.
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Here\'s my take wrote:
joalturn wrote:
ESPN has him listed as a RB. He’s also a bit tall and underweight for that position (6’1 185 lbs). I wonder how he sees his athletic future considering he had 2 carries last season. It seems like most football/track guys tend to prefer the gridiron regardless of the discrepancy between football production and track results. Just look at Devon Allen.
They're moving him to WR. He's a 4-star recruit (also recruited by LSU, Georgia & Miami), so he should have been starting his freshman year or at the very least in the rotation.
Nice overview of his athletic background:
Very cool, thanks.
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Sally Vix wrote:
Still amazed that the linebacker Vernon Davis could run 4.38 at 250 pounds.
He was a TE but built like a linebacker,
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You forgot Nolan Cromwell?01
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Danzy was recruited as an "Athlete". He doesn't really have a position and the FSU offense was a mess and will probably continue to be a dumpster fire with Castellanos at QB. He will stay with football based on NIL but clearly there is talent for track. His dad was a talented runner. Hopefully football lets him continue to do track and not force him to change his body much. As for the Olympics, a little too early for that kind of hype. Jalen Ramsey did it for a few years and Jimbo certainly didn't like it.
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Twice up there I read......your post has been removed.......what?
First off I didn't post anything there and second why would I say anythng talking about this that would need to be removed
Yep.........????????
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He makes RGIII look like a novice. He ran 46.9 in HS. Doesn't look like he ever gave an open 400 much of a try, especially in college.
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malmo wrote:
You forgot Nolan Cromwell?There was a picture of him running the hurdles in T&FN, you;d never think........QB.
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runnER/DR wrote:
He makes RGIII look like a novice. He ran 46.9 in HS. Doesn't look like he ever gave an open 400 much of a try, especially in college.
You'd think I;ve have some 4x4 splits for RGIII, nope!
Anyone?
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bloviating wrote:
Danzy was recruited as an "Athlete". He doesn't really have a position and the FSU offense was a mess and will probably continue to be a dumpster fire with Castellanos at QB. He will stay with football based on NIL but clearly there is talent for track. His dad was a talented runner. Hopefully football lets him continue to do track and not force him to change his body much. As for the Olympics, a little too early for that kind of hype. Jalen Ramsey did it for a few years and Jimbo certainly didn't like it.
Well, he's a recruiting bust then. As a 4-star, he should have been starting or like I said at the very least in the rotation (doesn't matter if a player recruited as an athlete, RB, WR? etc). There are 4-star QBs starting in their FR year. But considering it's Florida St, I can see them screwing this up. Lol
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RG III is still 2md faster 400H of all time - ahead of Kerron Clermont and Rai Benjamin. Who knows how fast if he stayed with it.
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