It’s NFL Combine season, which means it’s time to watch some former college kids try to run, lift, jump and catch their way into the hearts of scouts with the hopes of earning the right to have one of the league’s 32 teams draft them onto the roster. Among the many events at this football convention that takes place in Indianapolis is the 40-yard dash. While far from the greatest indicator of NFL talent, it’s at the very least an entertaining spectacle as it showcases elite athletes performing elite athletics.
In recent years, the standard for the peak speed at the 40-yard dash was eventual Titans running back Chris Johnson finishing at 4.24 seconds in 2008. It was just the second year after NFL.com started keeping track of every major combine stat for every player, and almost a decade after the league adopted the laser plane that electronically marks when a player has finished running the required 120 feet. …
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