re: Aggies in the Draft '13

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Lacks great top end speed

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WOW! Swope's official time is 4.34. Tied for 2nd among WRs with Austin, only behind Goodwin.

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So in other words, a guy who "lacks great top end speed"

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you understand there is a difference between track speed and football speed, right? I mean on film, I can see where they say that. When Ryan is in a pure footrace no one ever caught him that I remember, but route running he didn't create that type of huge separation that you would expect from a kid that runs that sort of forty time.

I think elusiveness gets subconsciously combined with raw speed as well. People think JFF is the fastest guy on the team (he's not by a long shot) but his ability to change direction at full sprint makes his gamespeed simply god-like. While I don't think anyone thinks Swope is slow, he doesn't burst out of his cuts and create immediate separation which masks how fast he really is straightline. I think a guy like Kyrion Parker is going to look crazy fast for the opposite reason though I doubt he runs a forty even in the 4.5 range.