"All NFL Wide Receivers can break 50 sec in the 400m"

Baseball Ain't a Sport wrote:

Being generous, 5% of them could break 50. I doubt that all of them can break 11 for a hundred. Some of the smaller ones on juice, like PEDelman, could maybe break 50.

I'm not sure the doping cheater PEDelman could do it without cutting across the track. None of Belicheat's guys would try it straight up.

The Riot wrote:

I would say a very high percentage have the potential to break 50 if they trained for it for awhile. However, without specific training, the vast majority would run out of gas at about 100 meters. Everything they do is designed to develop explosive quickness over 10-30 meters.

I love reading post about Am. football from posters who have never been around high school, college or pro Am. football players. "Only doing quick explosive movement training ... ." Every swinging d&ck on Am. football team has to do 100 yard repeats. Running backs, receivers and linebackers may do more 100 yard repeats than the rest of the team. That said, not all future NFL receivers are able to break 50 for 400m. I'd say (10-25)%.

Star wrote:

If you scheduled a meet next week, I doubt any of them would break 400.

Not without at least 6 weeks of specific training.

I suspect there are some who can. In the old days Robert Smith and Darrell Green were sub 46 and there are likely some guys like that around now.

This is absurd. Of course some of them could break 50. Some of these dudes were 46 flat or faster 400 meter athletes in HIGH SCHOOL. You are telling me Ted Ginn couldn’t run a sub 50 400 in his sleep. Give me a fucking break. If my moderately athletic ass could run 49 in high school with shitty high school training then some of the best athletes in the world certainly could.

Baseball Ain't a Sport wrote:

Being generous, 5% of them could break 50. I doubt that all of them can break 11 for a hundred. Some of the smaller ones on juice, like PEDelman, could maybe break 50.

Agreed! And...I don’t even think he could break 50. You have to realize these people are athletes but they’re specialized in what they do. Most wide receivers would need to lose at least 30 pounds of steroid muscle prior to attempting a longer sprint such as the 200 or 400. Not to mention actually train for something longer than 40 yards.

There are slot receivers in the NFL who aren't particularly fast by NFL standards who make a living off running crisp routes and catching the ball. No way could these guys sniff sub 50.

Lol yall acting like we talking about like 46! We talking about 49 high! So are you telling me a JV high school athlete can beat Odell Beckham in a 400! I think not!

All of these WR did run a sub 50.00

Robert Woods.....top HS 400m cat in the nation

Karl Farmer.....45ish guy

Renaldo Nehemiah split a sub 45.00 4x4 leg

Herman Moore...47ish

Travis Hannah....45ish guy

Pat Johnson ....45.3

Curtis Conway spit a sub 46.00 4x4 in HS

Cliff Branch ran on his Colorado 4x4 team, had some sub 48 splits

These guys all ran a sub 21.00 in college.

Bob Hayes WR 20.5

Phil Epps

Mel Gray

James Jett

Alvis Whitted.....ran a 45.8 400

Tyreek Hill ran a 20.14 in HS

Sammy Watkins a 20.6 guy

Sam Graddy

Jerome Mathis

Willie Gault

Jacoby Ford

Gerald Tinker

Larry Burton.....Olympic 200m

Mark Duper

James Lofton

Mike Miller

Homer Jones....once beat Bob Hayes in an NAIA 200m, the daddy of the spike

Won't count Olympians Ray Norton, Jim Hines, Tommie Smith, Frank Budd, they were failed experiments.

I have no doubts all WIDE receivers (not slot guy, where quicks are the key not speed) can break a 50.00 and a 23.00 with a couple weeks of getting used to that distance not that most NFL receivers didn't run some track already.

Lol distance runners wrote:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2018/receiving.htm#receiving::rec_yds

show me 1 player in the top 50 here who cant break 50 in a 400 and tell me why? All these dudes ran in the 10's in HS for the 100. Robert Woods ran 46 in 400 in high school. They're ATHLETES. They're not distance runners who don't have an explosive or athletic bone in their body.

Thank you for some sanity in this thread.

I ran 51 as a 6’0 175 pound miler. You mean to tell me that elite athletes - beyond the 99%tile - can’t do the same? Athletes who workout nonstop? Who do agility and speed drills all day? Sure, there are outliers like Kelvin Benjamin, but most of these guys have track results online. RG3 could have been an Olympian in the 400mh as a QB.

Fools.

This thread is hilarious. A few guys get it.

Most # 1 receivers were sub 11 and 22 in high school. The elite ones were in the 10.4 and 21 low range. Almost every number one NFL receiver could break 50. College rosters are littered with 46 and 47 second guys who barely see the field. You guys have no clue.

Remember Jay Fiedler the Miami quarterback in the 90s.? Was he considered a great athlete? No, however he was a 2x NYS pentathlon champion who was able to run the 400IH in 54. Again he wasn't considered an athletic NFLer but was an elite HS track and field athlete.

Most NFL wide receivers could run sub 50 with very minimal training.

Probably not too many would break 50 as that would require some training. 23.5 would be a pice of cake. That is really slow for 200.

Off the top of my head guys who could forsure run sub 50:

Deandre Hopkins

Julio Jones

Antonio Brown

Juju Smith-schuster

Tedd Ginn jr

AJ Green

John Ross

Robert Woods

Odell Beckham

TY Hilton

Michael Thomas

Amari Cooper

Brandon Cooks

TY Hilton

Stefon Diggs

These are just a few of the guys off the top of my head. I'm sure there's probably another 100 guys or more who just as big names

You got it, a 50.00/23.00 not much for anyone used to running fast.

If they are in any kind of shape then yes they could. Easily all of them could run 23.5 on the 200m. Lol this is a joke come on now. If it wasn't for football the USA would dominate track in every offend, other than the bolt era. Most HS wide receivers, at least the ones that run track in order to stay in shape, could easily run 52 hr better.

Yes a grown professional athlete could run fsstse than 12 year old girl lol. This is the dumbest post I've seen. lol

ummm..yes wrote:

If you have the right fast-twitch genes

BUSTED. In this day and age, if you think a trait is genetic, scientists can collect samples (such as from sprinters) and identify the fast-twitch genes easily. Which genes are they?

Star wrote:

If you scheduled a meet next week, I doubt any of them would break 400.

Not without at least 6 weeks of specific training.

Not true. There are definitely some who could on zero notice. Two weeks is all the rest of them would need. It doesn't take good hs football athletes six weeks to get ready for a 400. You gotta remember these are better athletes than your average , non athletic , hs track participant smh

I really doubt all of them can run 50 seconds right off the bat. Some high schoolers run 11 seconds flat and can't break 50. It's an odd result but the lactic acid really kills the best of untrained athletes.

Running a 23.5 and dunking a basketball is such a stupid comparison. Dunking is highly dependent on height. Someone who has a standing reach of 8 and a half feet can dunk with little athleticism. Meanwhile someone with a reach of one foot shorter is going to have a much tougher time. There's people out there who can't dunk and can easily run 23.5