February 26, 200719 yr What is the fastest 40 yard dash time that can be backed up with links you know of? Im just curious.:confused:
February 26, 200719 yr Darrell Green - Washington Redskins Ran the 40 yard dash in 4.2 seconds at the age of 40. His fastest 40 yard dash time was 4.15 seconds. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1296062/bio
February 26, 200719 yr We are thinking about the same thing at this point of the morning. Just saw that Peterson ran a 4.38, that's pretty impressive for a big back. Any time sub 4.4 catches my eye. I heard Calvin Johnson posted a good one in the combine.
February 26, 200719 yr The guys over at the NFL channel seem to think this year's group in much faster than recent groups. That mike have something to do with the pre-combine training going on at various locations.
February 26, 200719 yr Darrell Green - Washington Redskins Ran the 40 yard dash in 4.2 seconds at the age of 40. His fastest 40 yard dash time was 4.15 seconds. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1296062/bio No way!!!!
February 26, 200719 yr Garrett Wolf, RB out of Northern Illinois. 4.01!!!!!!!!!!! Thats pure lightning!
February 26, 200719 yr Garrett Wolf, RB out of Northern Illinois. 4.01!!!!!!!!!!! Thats pure lightning! Wheres your source. Not saying your not telling the truth. I would just like to see a link so i can look at the variables. Where was it at and so on.
February 26, 200719 yr Garrett Wolf, RB out of Northern Illinois. 4.01!!!!!!!!!!! Thats pure lightning! That is VERY hard to believe...I have to see a link on that...
February 26, 200719 yr Author Wolf ran a 4.01 in the shuttle or the three cone drill i saw but not the 40. The fastest 40 at the combine this year was a 4.3 ran buy some guy. I forgot the name.
February 26, 200719 yr Garrett Wolf, RB out of Northern Illinois. 4.01!!!!!!!!!!! Thats pure lightning! Wrong. He ran the shuttle in 4.01. He ran the 40 in 4.44. The link is no good though, but Yahoo! gave me preview that explained it.... http://www.draftdaddy.com/blog/blog032005.cfm
February 26, 200719 yr No one, and I mean no one runs a 4.01! I hate to say anything is impossible but that is about as close as you can get.
February 26, 200719 yr I stand corrected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_yard_dash Many reported times are unreliable due to differences in timing methods if not intentional falsifications. The fastest time officially recorded by the NFL was 4.29 seconds by Deion Sanders in 1989 [1], although the NFL did not begin electronic timing until 1990. In the electronic timing era, the fastest recorded time at the NFL Combine was 4.25 seconds by cornerback Fabian Washington in 2005. [2] Most other times close to 4.0 are untrustworthy due to the use of hand timing, but it is often claimed that players including Sanders (4.17)[3], Ted Ginn Jr. (4.06)[4], Ryan Dotson (4.24) DeAngelo Hall (4.15)[5][6], Michael Vick (4.25)[7], Bo Jackson (4.14)[8], Don Beebe (4.21)[1], Michael Bennett (4.13)[9], Randy Moss (4.25)[10], Darrell Green (4.15[11], 4.2[12]), Laveranues Coles (4.2)[13], and Alexander Wright (4.09)[14] have approached that mark. Although 40 yards is always run, the 60 meter dash is not a well-regulated track and field distance, the official record for which is 6.39 seconds. Tapes of sprinter Ben Johnson's world-record breaking 1988 100 meter dash (which was later annulled due to Johnson's steroid use), however, show that Johnson ran the 60 m in 6.37 seconds; this is considered the most quickly started race ever run.[15] Johnson covered the first 40 meters in 4.53 seconds. It is often reported wrongly that Johnsons first 40 yards was timed. It was actually his first 40 meters. Which translates to an exceptionally fast 40 yard time (4.14 seconds). However, in track and field races, the runner must react to the starting gun, which can take 0.10 to 0.20 seconds. For electronically timed 40 yard dashes, the runner is allowed to start when he wishes, and a timer hand-starts the clock (after a reaction time of 0.1 to 0.2 seconds). This difference would indicate that, at peak form, Johnson would have been electronically timed in 4.04 to 4.14 seconds, or hand-timed in about 4.00 seconds, making claims of hand-held times in the 4.1-4.2 range more credible.
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