re: What was Bo Jackson's 40 time?

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you could have just stated you didnt know what you were talking about.

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Corey Grant had a hand timed 4.11 this offseason at the Auburn IPF.

Am I missing something? You realize I was being a jackass when I said Bo ran a handtimed 2.9, right?

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Corey Grant

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In yo head.

Slower than Bo Wallace's.

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Bo's was at the NFL combine. But don't let that stop you from........

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Jeebus it was a joke about Corey Grant's time not Bo Jacksons.

I had a Dallas Cowboys scout that was at the combine tell me that several scouts clocked him at a 4.19

Auburn has 2 of the 3 fastest 40 times at the combine. Bo's 4.12 and Alexander Wright's 4.18.

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What was Bo Jackson's 40 time?

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https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2008-02-22-40-yard-dash_N.htm

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Here is what happens to get the 40 times at the combine:

• Those who participate in the 40 actually run twice. On each run they are timed by two handheld stopwatches and one electronic timer (that is actually initiated by hand on the player's first movement).

• Combine data put together for NFL teams by National Scouting includes all six of those times for each player, but no single official time.

Team scouts and coaches have various approaches for getting the 40 time they use from those six sources. Some use averages. Some throw out slowest and fastest and then average the rest. Some ignore the whole thing and use a time taken by their own scout.

So it is that Jackson's time of 4.12 at the Superdome is the best ever, verified by numerous reports that week in 1986, including a front-page story from USA TODAY.

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This. No hand timed 40, even today, should ever be taken seriously.

Bo did not run a sub 4.2. Deion did not run a sub 4.4 going backwards.

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yea I'd bet good money he never broke 4.45