LC#7 - 2nd Fastest on the Team?

Roquan

It depends on how short/long the race is.

Long legs and long stride... I can see Lorenzo carter beating a lot of guys in 40+

"You hear that NFL scouts??"

No chance....

Swift has to be faster. What happened to #16? Wasn't he supposed to be faster than shite?

If you lined them up on a track, I doubt anybody outruns Eric Stokes. In pads harder to tell, but I'd say Stokes, Hardman, Speed, Simmons, McBride would all be faster than Lorenzo Carter. Probably others too, including a couple of the RB's and another WR or two. Hopefully some of the other DB's too.

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Forget what that crazy arse Michel and Roquan say. Like they would know anyway. We definitely have a better handle on this than his teammates.

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All of the guys I listed ran 100 meters track timed in high school comfortably under 11 seconds. Stokes ran a 10.40 at state, where he won his class, and had several other comparable times. McBride ran a 10.71 PR and several comparable times, and also took first in his class in state. Deandre Baker had a PR of 10.83, and several other comparable times (and a 21.74 PR in the 200, 5th in state). Tyler Simmons had a 10.6 PR, 4th in state, and several comparable times, plus a 21.37 200 meter PR. Ameer Speed ran a 10.39 at a meet last spring (probably not accurate), but also has multiple times in the 10.6, 10.7 range, plus a 21.42 200 meter. Mecole Hardman won his region with a 10.64, 2nd in state with a 10.74. Nick Chubb has a 10.69 PR to place 2nd in his region, probably not as fast now but probably still faster than LCarter. Jason Stanley 10.83 PR, etc., etc., etc.


Lorezo Carter ran a PR 11.30 100 meters in high school, 22.72 in the 200. Things change in college, but not that much. With all due respect to Sony and Roquan, Lorenzo is nowhere close to the 2nd fastest guy on this team, at any distance.

Top end speed translates to track times at some distance, which is why Usain Bolt holds both the 100 meter record and the fastest recorded top end speed. Carter's best time even in the 200 (longer race which gives more time at top speed) was 1 - 1.5 seconds slower than several of the guys above, and half to nearly one second slower in the 100 meter. I don't see any way he's second fastest in top end speed or over any distance.

He could very well be 2nd fastest in pads. Some folks speed doesn’t translate well under any sort of encumbrance.

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The data is the data. My guess is that they are measuring football speed.

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My guess is that the data is bad and bad data is bad data. They didn't catch the faster players at their max or didn't even measure them. Long legs are fine, but Lorenzo Carter is not going to exceed the top end speed, football speed, track speed or any other kind of speed of those guys I listed above. They were among the fastest in their regions and states across a variety of distances that are long enough to lessen the impact of a slow starter. That means they have top end speed to burn and it was proven in a much more rigorous setting than a football practice.

If it makes the fans happy to think we have some kind of superhuman freak playing linebacker, 6'5", 245 and runs like the Flash, good for you. But he's not going to run down these 180 - 210 lb speedsters on or off the field, because he's not as fast as they are top end, bottom end, with or without pads.

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it said that he was on gps running over 22 mph.

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Well, that makes us slower than teams like Tennessee, which is not a fast team, IF Lorenzo is the 2nd fastest player. But he's not.