Having a friendly debate about the fastest nfl guy. Who would be the top 5 and there times
Having a friendly debate about the fastest nfl guy. Who would be the top 5 and there times
Sam Graddy 10.05
Ron Brown 10.0?
Both were drafted for speed. True receivers who happen to be fast run in the 10.2-10.3 range.
Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Yes indeed - Bobby Hayes.
holy shit...looks like he's having a seizure
He was pigeon toed, had terrible form, and still ran 10.06 in the Olympic final on a chewed up cinder track.
Brandon Saine formerly of THe Ohio State University holds the all time Ohio HS 100 record.
I believe the top 5 NFL players with wind-legal 100m times are:
1. 9.95 +0.3 Jim Hines (Altitude > 1000m)
2. 10.00 +0.3 Trindon Holliday
3. 10.01 +1.6 Jeff Demps
4. 10.01 +0.9 Jacoby Ford
5. 10.06 +1.3 Bob Hayes
see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_meter_times_by_NFL_players
OTC Member wrote:
Bob Hayes
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This ^
Adrian Peterson could beat Usain Bolt so I'd imagine he's in the 9.5 range
If you take 20 seconds and click on the wikipedia link above,
you can see Adrian Peterson's wind-legal and wind-aided 100m times. You don't have to guess...
David Gettis played in he NFL the last 3 years. He must have been able to run something fast. I remember seeing him run 45.84 in the state meet in the 400 and he ran a 20.60 200m earlier that season in 2005.
statfool wrote:
If you take 20 seconds and click on the wikipedia link above,
you can see Adrian Peterson's wind-legal and wind-aided 100m times. You don't have to guess...
Yes, but you see, he said he could beat Usain Bolt. So therefore he has to be in the 9.5 range. Who are you to doubt AP?
I'm sure AP has beaten Bolt handily in the $$ dimension.
"Could beat" is one of those hypotheticals.
Theoretically it may have been possible with the right training.
So you are right, the observed times don't answer all the
interesting questions, like how much faster a person
might be able to run if they did all the right things.
> David Gettis played in he NFL the last 3 years. He must have been able to run something fast.
> I remember seeing him run 45.84 in the state meet in the 400 and he ran a 20.60 200m earlier that season in 2005.
Those are his top times, according to
http://www.all-athletics.com/node/85104
which seems to be a reliable source.
Although it's a 20.6 (hand timed).
This site doesn't list any 100m times for him.
Of course it doesn't mean he's not fast.
There are other fast guys who don't have a well documented 100m time.
and the 20.6 doesn't have a wind velocity.
That can be a problem for high school times.
In AP's massively wind aided high school PR, he was beat by like .2-.3 by underclassman Ivory Williams at the time. I think Ivory was a sophomore and AP was a sr, but I forget.
Most of the fast NFL guys, if they had trained, could go 10.3-10.5. Most of them, if they just hopped into a meet, would run 10.7-11.0. Srsly. Marqise Lee ran something like 10.7 and the Atkinson bros, who are 10.3 type guys, run 6.9 60m when they open up their seasons. The NFL guys are even further off the mark.
Trindon Holiday. Denver Broncos. 9.8?
Trindon Holliday doesn't have a 9.8.
He has a wind-aided 9.98 +4.3 .
His best wind-legal is 10.00 , as above.
Both times are listed with details at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_meter_times_by_NFL_players
6.9 is seriously slow.
I bet most the faster NFL guys would go 6.6-6.7 in a 60m only because its not much different than a 40y and chemically its no different ATP source. So they'd be faster at 60 than you'd think up there with the best in track.
Whole other world after that, Lots of guys do 6.6-6.7 indoors then can't touch 10.3 outdoors.
The fast NFL guys would barely be under 11. Some of the leaner, taller guys would get under 10.5. Watching the last 40m of these guys would be funny. You're only running for 10 seconds too, but its harder than it looks.
Most pure 100m guys in Track do 6.50i/10.00basic/20.3-20.8 so the drop off for 100m track guys is pretty big. NFL'ers would be even bigger drop off, estimate a 6.60i/10.40-10.60basic/21.5-22.5 and thats for the fastest 40y guys.
Deceptively fast at 60m, unprepared for 100m and hopelessly outmatched for 200m.