Mr. 4.25

[kopk888]

i have never seen a man get so tensed up and run this "fast"

[mikeedro]

wow.... that is soooo fast!

[dal4018]

There was a guy named Jerome Mathis who ran a hand timed 4.25 at the '05 combine and coaches in the MEAC (Mid East Athletic Conference) said he was the closest thing to a YOUNG BULLET BOB HAYES coming out of Div.1-AA Hampton while he played for Houston.

[decadyne]

@dal4018

Hand timing means NOTHING. I have watched hundreds upon hundreds of hand-timers at track meets. They get it wrong, but they still get it more right than the most pathetic hand timing I've ever witnessed: at combines and a football field. I have seen football coaches start the timer when the runner starts, and not vice versa! It is a complete and utter joke. I've seen countless 4.2ers in football fail to compete in track. It's just dumb. Learn to time, football folks.

[dal4018]

@decadyne Well I've heard ppl complain about electronic timing as well that's used at the combine.

[dal4018]

@decadyne In fact it was the opposite the guy I mentioned in a previous post folks felt he ran even faster than his clocking of 4.25 Jerome Mathis I think some clocked him in a sub 4.2.

[decadyne]

@dal4018

The NFL's "timing" method is useless and people should complain about it. In it, the athlete can start when he wants -- he doesn't react to any external stimulus. I would love to have seen Maurice Green's NFL 40 combine time. He would have run under 4.

The NFL's attempts to quantify speed are inferior. The problems have already been worked out by FAT, but the NFL -- true to the hubris of ignorance -- wants to do it its own way.

[dal4018]

@decadyne Okay what does FAT stands for just curious?

[dal4018]

@decadyne What about Bo Jackson's all time mark of 4.12 it is still the standard for all to shoot for at the combine.

[decadyne]

@dal4018

Bo's 40 was hand timed. Even most accurate hand-timing is about .22 off. None of any of Bo's other 40s was near this time. I would say this chalks up to a timing anomaly and it is definitely *not* anything close to a "standard" for the combine.

[dal4018]

@decadyne Granted but that is considered the standard at the combine and no one has come close.

[navpreet1000]

lol its funny how his form is near the end of his 40

[ABOVExTHExCLOUDZ]

he could cut off a whole second if he bever had to carry his hammer

[speedyandquick]

yes i just beat him 4.22

[aarongo4]

bullshit your not faster than chris johnson from the tennessee titans he runs a 4.24 and hes the fastest player in the NFL.

[flaccojoe]

yea and wats he doing now

exactly 40 isn t everthing

[Mrgamer4]

His form is horrible. he could run faster with better form

[speedyslime93]

I ran a 4.39 with a huge boner

[Zeropip]

lol

[rmous]

i ran a 3.25 40 yard dash with no legs

[weeeehoo]

thats nothing i ran a 1.00 as a fetus with no legs

[eduardohuerta73190]

lmfao idk why but both these comments made me laugh

[LatinKing792]

hey guys, im 9 years old and i ran a 3.22 second forty yard dash while my kneecaps were shattered

[JaderVason2]

Darrell Green ran sub 4.2's and a 10.06 in the 100m dash in college. He was simultaneously the quickest and fastest football player ever, for probably about 18 years. After he turned 40 he just didn't train that hard anymore, realistically who would at that point?

[wolverine22blue]

Yeah Green was a freak. Still amazing he played for all those years at such a high level with that kind of speed.

[davidraccoon]

Jacoby Ford from Clemson runs a 4.12

[BIGQ03]

jacoby ford is also a mother fuckin ncaa track champion and almost olympic qualifier.... what the hell!!

[fsu4noles]

I went to Eastern Michigan with Geoff while he played there for a few years before going to howard.... He ran a 4.22 when I was there... trust me he is fast!

[SpeedPastYou]

harvard? dang.

[thabest1995]

no howard university

[SpeedPastYou]

typo

[SurfAllOfSd]

lmao thats not a 4.2 lool

[jonjonmadden]

I can run a 4.8

[ChazmSpazms]

Depending on what position you play... Fail.

[beatdaFoutofU]

HAND TIMED DOES NOT COUNT! The human eye can't hand time a 4.3

[rich187113]

It makes a huge difference from running on grass, than a track.

[use2slam2]

all these crazy 40 times are hand timed.1971

sports illustrated,bob hayes pro track circuit,ran 4.3 electronically timed. all these 4.2' and 4.1's are 4.4 or 4.5 electronic!!! hayes also ran 10.06 on cinder(dirt)lets see how many guys today could pull that off

[joecandito]

no one could come close. chris johnson 4.24 40 but 10.62 100m. auto time for track is even slower because the person reacts to the gun. that means bob hays would run a 4.0 FAT 40

[danny941016]

chris johnson ran a 10.38 100 but he did it on a rubeer track with track spikes so not even close bob

[TrashCrap]

u can tell by the way his clothes are blowing in the wind when hes just standin there waitin for his drill that his 40 was wind aided...

[rikrik617]

darrell green ran a 4.20 40 when he was 40 years old

[DJx79x]

darrell green ran a confirmed but unofficial 4.09 forty

[barabzilla]

confirmed but unofficial...LMAO

[RBGdUP]

lol

[GMRchamp]

Fastest known 40 is by a Chicago bear kick returner who ran a 3.9 at combine two years ago

[ihatehomos]

and your even dumber

are you kidding me? Chicago Kick returner?

Devin Hester?

WOW he ran a 4.45

what the hell are you smoking

just because Madden has him at 100 speed

it doesnt mean you can make some random shit up

[Underarmour81]

Shut up damn always bitching

[jburnslockdown]

it was actually by a chicago bear reciever from the 80s. named willie gault.

[RBGdUP]

ha, good one. Willie "The Bullet" Gault. I'm not sure if he ran a 3.9 because that is sprinter speed, but he was one of the fastest. Bob Hayes was faster

[GABuckeye37]

Bo Jackson never ran a 4.13 or a 4.12. The fastest OFFICIAL 40 time I know of is 4.24 from Chris Johnson.

[ihatehomos]

Ur kinda dumb, maybe bo jackson didnt run a 4.13 but Chris Johnson has the best official 40?

Uh heard of Randy Moss 4.19 Pro Day

Deion Sanders 4.21

Joey Galloway 4.18

Steve Smith 4.22

?

[jraybay]

randy moss ran a 4.19?? damn! . I never knew that seriously :\

[dal4018]

Ga Buckeye Bo has the unofficial mark for the 40 and yes its 4.12 NO ONE WILL EVER TOUCH THAT MARK PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GABuckeye37]

He never did that. There is NO WAY you can prove it, so don't try.

[dal4018]

@GABuckeye37 So how do you know he didn't ?

[AMK2401]

all ya muthafuckas is lyin' darrell green ran a 4.3 and bo jackson ran a 4.3

[Gump]

naw you wrong darrell green ran 4.2 something but it was a 4.2

[CannonJrSolow]

Put it this way they aint playin givem repsect he aint no devin hester and game speed is all that matter she probably cant run that fast in the NFL devin hester game speed is 4.27 *think ppl think*

[gothamjoker1]

darrell green ran a 4.2 when he was 40 years old.

[sdplaymaker619]

bo jackson ran a 4.13

[joecandito]

all you guys are talking about these crazy times when the only reliable time is electronic. the record is like 4.29 or something. handtime can be so off it could vary by 1-2 tenths. trindon holiday is the fastest football player ever. he ran a 10.02 100 compared to sanders's 10.3

[ugoshow1]

Prime Time ran a 4.1

I think James Jet who played in the mid 90s ran the fastest time ever of any NFL player.

It was world class speed. He was not that good with the Raiders.

[lhwood777]

darrell green ran a 4.09 hand timed.. and actually ran the fastest 100 time in the world right before he turned pro

[ugoshow1]

WOW! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT

[cphil006]

Sorry, I'm a skins fan, but DG never ran a 4.09. DG himself said he ran a 4.15 as his fastest timed. The 4.09 that you speak of is a rumor started by someone who posted it on yahoo.

[nicholas5555]

champ bailey ran a 4.19 40

[Crimion1]

He play for the giants # 33

[deuce5king]

if blazing speed is so important... why wasnt this kid invitd to the combine

[dal4018]

Good question unfortunately there's a cutoff list and he didn't make it but he's got a SB ring so that evens it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MET40KING]

Justin Gatlin ran a 3.8s 40 yard dash

[cphil006]

Where did you read/hear this?

Never heard anyone running a sub 4.1

[MET40KING]

They said it on sports center

[cphil006]

oh, it must be true then. Someone heard ESPN say it. Someone wrote on Wikipedia that Darrell Green ran a 4.09. no proof, just someone's own rumor.

Darrell himself said the fastest he ever ran (hand timed) was a 4.15 ~ 4.17.

Who ran a sub 4.1?  Justin Gatlin never ran a 3.8 40. ben Johnson's first 40 -yards was 4.38

[Iamthe1andon1y]

gatlin ran a 4.1 hand-timed at a texans workout in houston

and even though ben johnson ran a 4.38 which was FAT timed if you account for the reaction time of the gun and the reaction time of the timer for the semi-electric timing they use at the NFL combine he would've easily been in the sub 4.2 range.

[futurehalloffamer]

whoever thinks gatlin ran a 3.8 (even with performance enhancing drugs)

Deserves to get there dick nailed to a burning building

[josh100787]

lmfao.....fucked up

[bossofalltime]

LOL at anyone who thinks that T Holliday is faster than Bob Hayes over 100m. LOL again that T Holliday has the fastest acceleration in the world. Asafa Powell would dust him over 40yd as would Leonard Scott

[bossofalltime]

Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of T Holliday and understand that he has got great speed. But I'm a T&F guy aswell and the track guys would beat the Football guys over 40yd most of the time

[migellejones]

Holliday is faster than bob hayes. Look it up 10.02 100m time, fastest college football player ever.

[bossofalltime]

Well I'll be damned - Ran that 10.02 in the semis of the NCAA Champs. I'm not splitting hairs, but Hayes would've beaten Holliday in a 100m anyday of the week. But a PR is a PR

[cphil006]

Fastest track athlete who also played football, we don't know if he would have beaten any football player would have beaten him. Track speed... and there's game speed.

[prf1027]

wow all you are haters he ran a 4.29 at the combine. is that official enough for u

[SlickRick1Rula]

he wasnt even there retard

[moblackman]

No that's not official. NFL combine times are hand timed so they're not as accurate as electronic timing. The fastest track and field runners run their first 40 yards in the 4.3's, so how is he faster than them. Also I believe when Ben Johnson ran his 9.79 in 1988 he ran his first 40 yards in an estimated 4.37seconds. NFL 40 times are usualy 0.2-0.3 seconds faster than the real time ran. So if he were electronically timed he probably would've had a time in the 4.5's.

[cphil006]

NFL combine has electronically timed machined. People watching will hand time it, but the official results are electronically timed.

[thenextreggie]

the nfl combine is partially electrically timed how the 40's work are there's some that starts them by hand and the clock is stopped electrically when then cross the ending line. So they aren't completely accurate there's still that degree of human reaction time at the start.

[thenextreggie]

there's someone*

[dawtyd]

Man you don't know what the hell you're tallkin about. Trindon Holliday can run a 4.2 and his 100 METER dash time is faster than Bob Hayes' 100 YARD dash time. Trindon Holliday has the fast accelateration in the world which most football players to, but his top end speed ain't shit compared to Tyson Gay's or Asafa Powell's. But the 40 is all acceleration and that's it so that's why some football players (not many) can run a 4.2 or 4.3.

[steeda1984]

bullet bob hayes is the only man in football who could run a LEGIT 4.3 and below in the 40...all else is just bullshit

[cphil006]

Darrell Green could have run a legit 4.3. The only person to beat him his senior year in college was Carl Lewis. Yes, He ran track. Darrell was also a better football player than bob Hayes.

[USASoCCerGoaL]

Just to chime in, Darrell Green ran a 4.2 40 yrd dash in the redskins training camp when he was 40 years old. His fastest time recorded was a 4.12 earlier in his career

[MCLyrical]

fake ass 4.25

[KarmicJuggernaut]

dont trust hand timed...... unless like 10 people time the same run

[hahadudefoshizzle]

oo this was 4.25 HAND-TIMED that means its really a 4.50 because its a rule that u have to add .25 seconds to every hand-timed forty cause its never accurate, (its always a little faster than what it really is)

[aeg12aeg]

actually its .14 due to due visual delay. And 4.25 is possible, I have been to college combines where people run 4.27-4.3 electronic. And that is as legit as you get.

[moblackman]

If the top track and field runner can't run under 4.3 then how do you think that some college cats in run under 4.3. That's bullshit you're talking about. Look up Ben Johnson 4.37 to prove all your talk is wrong.

[aeg12aeg]

My talk is not wrong, top track runners can't run under 4.3 because in a 40 yard sprint it is about quickness. If a 40 yard sprinter runs against a 100m sprinter, the 40 yarder will most likely go to the short sprinter, but in that extra distance the 100m sprinter will catch up and beat the short sprinter. Comfusing to read, but the only way I could think to say it.

[cphil006]

agree. The 100m dash champions are running faster than anyone from 40 - 100 meters. These guys that run 4.2s, would get walked down by 100m sprinters in the latter part of the race.

[hahadudefoshizzle]

a 4.25 i thought that was humanly impossible?

[diamepiece]

nope i've seen a coupla cats go under 4.3

[deltaforce]

yo this dude is suppose to be making millions if this is true about his 40

[kelkel089]

just because u are fast doesnt mean u are good at football