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Is Terrelle Pryor's time believeable? Obviously the kid is a super athlete. It seemed when VY got top end speed, he was rarely caught from behind. But going through the links Hinton posted, it seems a bit stretched. I just don't see Pryor at 6'6'' 235 physically being able to post 4.33. What do you think?

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You can take it to the imaginary bank

We’ll have to wait for the combine to know Colt’s true height, much less Pryor’s actual 40.

They all do it. Roy was 6’5" at Texas before shrinking to 6’2" at Detroit.

by utexex on Aug 13, 2009 12:32 AM CDT reply actions  

I’m guessing about 6’4" 225lbs. right about now for Pryor, although he could be heavier, and probably will be above that by the time he heads to any pro measurements.

by burntorangehorn on Aug 13, 2009 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions  

40 times have been discussed at length on here fairly recently, so I won’t go through my whole spiel on it again, but they’re seriously exaggerated on a regular basis. First of all, this was probably a hand-time, like when Michael Vick went through spring drills going into his RS-sophomore year with a bunch of 4.22-4.28 times. Coaches are biased, and their bias combine with human error to lead to inaccurate times.

What’s absolutely stupid is that football people use this flawed measurement system in the first place. 40 times should be done electronically, with an electronic start, not a self-start. Self-starts negate the importance of registration, which is the time between when the person is supposed to start moving to when he actually starts moving. Registration is a key part of track and field, which is why Usain Bolt’s 40 split out of his world-record 100m dash could very well have been a “mere” 4.33, but he’d still blow the doors off a guy who timed 4.25 in a self-started 40 at the NFL combine (Chris Johnson, for example). Track is not football, but registration is as critical in football as it is in track, so there’s absolutely no good reason that it’s not part of timing the 40.

by burntorangehorn on Aug 13, 2009 2:43 PM CDT reply actions  

Thoughts

Do you think someone 6’6’’, 215+ could physically run a sub 4.5?

"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden

by run Bevo run on Aug 13, 2009 3:18 PM CDT up reply actions  

usually known as “reaction time”

by Displaced Longhorn on Aug 14, 2009 12:34 PM CDT up reply actions  

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