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re: Who are the fastest college football players of all time
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:19 am to spacewrangler
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:19 am to spacewrangler
Tyreek Hill
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Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:28 am to spacewrangler
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I'd like to know who is the fastest, with pads on, running say after 10 yds, for a 80yd td. The fastest 40yd guy could get caught and past by a guy who is not as good on the technical aspect of running a sprint but has overall greater speed.
Yeah, track speed and football speed are two different things. Read a post from an old Bama fan earlier this year telling the time where he ran into Bama's DC not long after the '93 Sugar Bowl:
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It was about a month after the 1993 Sugar Bowl and I was in Montgomery working a convention. A few of my buddies and I decided to taste the local nightlife one evening. We ended up in a local club with alcohol, women and a band. One of my friends (an Auburn fan) said to me. "There's Brother Oliver with his wife". I naturally turned to get a good look. I remembered his masterful defensive plan for Miami.
Shortly after the Brother sighting I went to the men's room. While standing at a urinal up walked Brother to use the one next to me. I asked him, "Is Teague really that much faster than Lamar Thomas ?"
He replied, "You can't tell from one Saturday to the next who is the fastest. He turned on an extra gear because his buddy got burned on the coverage."
For those that might not recall, Lamar Thomas was a member of the Miami track team and I think I recall hearing George Teague's speed was somewhere in the 4.5 to 4.6 range. Teague ran him down from behind badly (no angle), making up about 7 yards in doing so, and took the ball from him in the '93 Sugar Bowl...
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:41 am to FightingTigers7
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It’s plumlee and it’s not close
At the risk of sounding like a victim of recency bias, I can attest to the fact that I watched some dude with three names from Hattiesburg Mississippi break out in the open field with an LSU cornerback behind him and within half a second he laid down 3 yards of separation on his way to the endzone.
And the cornerback never let up.
I've been watching football my whole life and I've never seen that happen.
As has been said there's a big difference between track speed and football speed. Plumlee has absurd football speed. Absurd.
This post was edited on 11/19/19 at 8:50 am
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:42 am to YF12
Jeremy Bloom from Colorado ran at warp speed.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:57 am to Lonnie Utah
I dont think he was mentioned yet.....but Darren McFadden was pretty fricking fast! and big
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:02 am to DawgTired
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In all of football, "Bullet" Bob Hayes was the fastest, and it's not even close.
What? Tyreek Hill would blow him away.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:09 am to YF12
Demps is up there. Kid was just jesus christ fast
Which is why Addazio ran him up the middle so often. Trick the opponents into thinking we would use that speed.
Which is why Addazio ran him up the middle so often. Trick the opponents into thinking we would use that speed.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:13 am to Gatorbait2008
Willie Gault. He is still breaking records for his age group.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:35 am to WylieTiger
Trindon & Carter!!! 
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:43 am to 1badboy
Anthony Schwartz
Top time: 10.09 in the 100-meter dash
The 2017-18 Gatorade National Boys High School Track & Field Athlete of the Year and under-18 world record holder in the 100-meter dash, Auburn playmaker Anthony Schwartz is the fastest player in college football. Fittingly, he was the No. 1 track recruit in the country in 2018 as his potential with track is as high as it is on the gridiron.
Top time: 10.09 in the 100-meter dash
The 2017-18 Gatorade National Boys High School Track & Field Athlete of the Year and under-18 world record holder in the 100-meter dash, Auburn playmaker Anthony Schwartz is the fastest player in college football. Fittingly, he was the No. 1 track recruit in the country in 2018 as his potential with track is as high as it is on the gridiron.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:44 am to YF12
Bob Hayes
Deion Sanders
Bo Jackson (if you believe the unofficial 40 times)
Deion Sanders
Bo Jackson (if you believe the unofficial 40 times)
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:57 am to BoCam2
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Anthony Schwartz
That is the guy my coach targets between 1-4 times a game and then in the postgame presser tells everyone we have to do a better job of getting the ball in the hands of our playmakers.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 9:58 am to YF12
Wasnt Dexter Mccluster super fast?
Posted on 11/19/19 at 10:01 am to YF12
Ruggs: sensor tracked at 24mph top end ...in full pads is tough
Posted on 11/19/19 at 10:14 pm to Lonnie Utah
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The NFL went to laser timed 40 in 1999. You can pretty much ignore all the times before that.
Are you stating that people only learned how to run in 1999?
Posted on 11/19/19 at 10:46 pm to WaterLink
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Bo Jackson apparently had a 4.12 forty.
Heard this before but think it's bullshite. Maybe hand timed but he wouldn't clock a 4.12 electronically timed like they do at the combine nowadays.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 10:57 pm to Globetrotter747
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Heard this before but think it's bullshite
You'd be correct.That time would make em faster than Usain Bolt who ran a 4.22
Bo might be fast but I can promise you he wasn't faster than Bolt or even Tyreek Hill
Posted on 11/19/19 at 11:13 pm to Dawgfanman
Where's Tyreek Hill ?(Ty Hill isn't him)
Hill ran a 4.28 on his pro day.
Hill ran a 4.28 on his pro day.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 11:16 pm to Lestat de Lioncourt
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edit SEC Bo Jackson ran a 4.20
Deangelo Hall and Mike Vick 4.15 and 4.16 at Virginia Tech
horseshite to all those times.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 11:17 pm to YF12
Hollywood Brown and Kyler Murray gotta be up there.
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