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Strength coaches at Florida claim that FB Player Percy Harvin ran 20m in 1.79 seconds.
Pretty amazing considering that Gatlin ran 20m in 2.98 at the US Champs when he won in 2006.
Also, Asafa was 2.92 in his 9.77 run and Montgomery was 2.91.
Must be a typo because how many fb coaches use meters, but 1.79 in 20yds is still unreal, 1.79 for 10yds sounds about right.
Could be a flying 20m which wouldn’t be that unrealistic. You are talking about .895 per 10m segment.
The best part is that it basically says that Jeff Demps, the American Jr and HS Record Holder in the 100m, is no faster than 3rd fastest on his football team. I guess if they’ve got 2 guys who can run 1.79 for 20m then that should be expected though 😉
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So we can expect their track team to break the 4×1 WR this year I assume? Should be quite the ratings draw for the ncaa championship with that kind of talent.
Hahaha. Harvin I believe was a 10.4 10.5 guy in hs. Demps as we all know ran 10.0 and either Rainey or James have gone 10.7 10.8. Espn said there were over 10 guys sub 4.4 on FLA. After watching guys play I usually check there profile to see if they ran track and google them. I have come up with alot of fast dudes in college football who I should have written down and posted on here. One to watch is Javid Best from Cal who ran 10.31 in HS. Another is Noelle Devine from West VA who ran around a 10.42 and rumor has it that him and Demps raced in a walmart parking lot over the summer (they are both from FLA) and he beat Demps. lol
The other 2 that are fun to watch are Jacoby Ford and C.J. Spiller who both ran around 10.2 and 6.5-6.6 last year. Perhaps we should start a thread next football season about track guys that play NCAA football since we all know the track guys are most exciting to watch. Its funny cause I’ll see a guy play and check the teams roster and in his profile it’ll say 4a state champ 10.67 or 13.82 or jumped 6’9 like its nothing.
IF it was hand timed and started from the first foot down (like many coaches do it) then i believe it…
I’ve many guys run between 2.0 and 2.3 with that method.
IF it was hand timed and started from the first foot down (like many coaches do it) then i believe it…
I’ve many guys run between 2.0 and 2.3 with that method.
Really? How good were they? I used to time 10 and 20 yard splits back when I was a strength coach at OU and sometimes you’d see guys get to 2.3 but it was almost always from someone who didn’t know what the heck they were doing with the stopwatch. 2.0 sounds more like a 10 yard time…a slow one but still more reasonable than a 1.79 for 20 yards.
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Hahaha. Harvin I believe was a 10.4 10.5 guy in hs. Demps as we all know ran 10.0 and either Rainey or James have gone 10.7 10.8. Espn said there were over 10 guys sub 4.4 on FLA. After watching guys play I usually check there profile to see if they ran track and google them. I have come up with alot of fast dudes in college football who I should have written down and posted on here. One to watch is Javid Best from Cal who ran 10.31 in HS. Another is Noelle Devine from West VA who ran around a 10.42 and rumor has it that him and Demps raced in a walmart parking lot over the summer (they are both from FLA) and he beat Demps. lol
The other 2 that are fun to watch are Jacoby Ford and C.J. Spiller who both ran around 10.2 and 6.5-6.6 last year. Perhaps we should start a thread next football season about track guys that play NCAA football since we all know the track guys are most exciting to watch. Its funny cause I’ll see a guy play and check the teams roster and in his profile it’ll say 4a state champ 10.67 or 13.82 or jumped 6’9 like its nothing.
I’m on the West Coast and see Javid Best a lot. No one in football is catching him.
But I sense a commercial opportunity here: The Wal-Mart 100! Biggest thing in track!
Hahaha. Harvin I believe was a 10.4 10.5 guy in hs. Demps as we all know ran 10.0 and either Rainey or James have gone 10.7 10.8. Espn said there were over 10 guys sub 4.4 on FLA. After watching guys play I usually check there profile to see if they ran track and google them. I have come up with alot of fast dudes in college football who I should have written down and posted on here. One to watch is Javid Best from Cal who ran 10.31 in HS. Another is Noelle Devine from West VA who ran around a 10.42 and rumor has it that him and Demps raced in a walmart parking lot over the summer (they are both from FLA) and he beat Demps. lol
The other 2 that are fun to watch are Jacoby Ford and C.J. Spiller who both ran around 10.2 and 6.5-6.6 last year. Perhaps we should start a thread next football season about track guys that play NCAA football since we all know the track guys are most exciting to watch. Its funny cause I’ll see a guy play and check the teams roster and in his profile it’ll say 4a state champ 10.67 or 13.82 or jumped 6’9 like its nothing.
Hey Dan-
Do you still think we (US Track) don’t lose talent to football?
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But I sense a commercial opportunity here: The Wal-Mart 100! Biggest thing in track!
Reminiscent of this-
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[quote author="Nick Newman" date="1231409745"]IF it was hand timed and started from the first foot down (like many coaches do it) then i believe it…
I’ve many guys run between 2.0 and 2.3 with that method.
Really? How good were they? I used to time 10 and 20 yard splits back when I was a strength coach at OU and sometimes you’d see guys get to 2.3 but it was almost always from someone who didn’t know what the heck they were doing with the stopwatch. 2.0 sounds more like a 10 yard time…a slow one but still more reasonable than a 1.79 for 20 yards.[/quote]
No, it was def conistant…one guy ran 10.60, another ran 10.53 and them ummm, ME? my best over 20m done this way is 2.19, best 30 is 3.26 and best 40m is 4.21 done this week…
first foot touches = start stop watch, body breaks plane of cone = stop the watch
Mike:
The short answer is yes. Let’s see what happens with Holliday, Ford, Spiller, and Demps to see if their future is Football or Track. My guess is it will be the latter or nothing and right now Spiller has the best chance of any them to make it in the NFL, the others will have to be happy as kick returners if that, because the idiots in the NFL will not like their size, of course players like Sproles and Turner are quick to change minds, even Warrick Dunn or Marshall Faulk, but the idiots running the NFL are so horrible come draft day it doesn’t matter and the coaches are so damn biased about size and it being the primary reason someone is durable rather than cumulative amount touches one has or their ability to make people miss or not have them even touch them in a possession is beyond me.
Either the 4 listed athletes will make themselves into NFL players which means 30-40lbs more mass for 3 of them or they won’t play. They all could make a good bit of money doing both track and football if they just did professional indoor track doing 60s and maybe some spring/outdoor meets at 100m when they have 15-20lbs of more mass, but I don’t see it happening, because none of them or their agents won’t look long term and sign them as 5th or 6th rounders or even FA’s for $300K per year for 2 years non-guaranteed as primary kick returners, hoping to see the field as backup 3rd down backs and running about 7-10 meets a year with no Olympic aspirations hopefully getting a huge pay day.
Disillusionment is taking more track guys than football ever will.
I think we’re dealing with different questions. I’m not talking about after they’ve been in the NFL for a couple years would they be elite sprinters; I’m saying do they have the talent to be elite sprinters? If yes, and they end up playing pro ball as expected, then football took away some talented would-be tracksters.
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I think we’re dealing with different questions. I’m not talking about after they’ve been in the NFL for a couple years would they be elite sprinters; I’m saying do they have the talent to be elite sprinters? If yes, and they end up playing pro ball as expected, then football took away some talented would-be tracksters.
Yes, that would be the case if the NFL took elite sprinters, obviously in Today’s NFL climate you cannot be both unless you are juiced. There is no way the body could handle the stress and strain of track training at 250lbs at the same speeds they currently run without pharmaceutical help.
If we go with the Elite argument, what elite sprinter (sub 10.2 more 3 times) has gone to the NFL in the last 12 years?
So right now, we have 2 sprinters Holliday and Demps who have done this, but I don’t think either is going to the NFL although some idiot told Holliday he’s better suited for football professionally than he is track. I can’t remember the last time a 5-5 165 lb player made in the league Sproles at 5-6 is at or over 200 lbs and has lost a step over 40 yds since college days at k-state.
I would really like the 4 guys I listed to try to do both so when the football part doesn’t work out they have a fallback plan.
So then….the NFL HAS taken track and field talent…right?
It starts before the collegiate level. Think of all the 10.6 guys in HS who never give track more than a couple days a week for a couple months of the year because they’re training for, playing, and thinking about football rather than track. Now imagine if track paid $5 mil / year. Track would get a lot of those guys and they’d become 10.4 guys in HS, 10.2 guys in college, and <10.00 guys post-collegiately.
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Good to see most people here are finally agreeing for once as this is a good thread.
dbandre, first name that comes to mind regarding elite sprinters going into the NFL perhaps Michael Bennett who ran 10.18 in college (now is LT and Sproles backup lol)
Regarding Sproles…. they have him listed at 5’6 181 on the Chargers website and on the Kansas State Website they had him listed at 170. At his pro day or maybe it was his combine I think I recall him running 4.47 his vert being 33, standing LJ 8’9, and bench reps 23. All in all not great numbers to make up for his size. While I don’t think he is blazing fast (don’t think he lost a step as you may have suggested either) I think he is fast enough and his ability to change direction is extraordinary although I do not remember his pro-agilty time. It just seems that the kid could play football (great field vision, great balance prehaps).
Just for arguements sake if I had to guess I bet he could step on the track and pop-off a 6.5x-6.6x 55/ 7.0-7.1 60 time. Thoughts?
It just seems that the kid could play football (great field vision, great balance prehaps). Just for arguements sake if I had to guess I bet he could step on the track and pop-off a 6.5x-6.6x 55/ 7.0-7.1 60 time. Thoughts?
I don’t doubt his ability to run those times one bit. I’d actually guess that they are on the conservative side.
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Regarding Sproles…. they have him listed at 5’6 181 on the Chargers website and on the Kansas State Website they had him listed at 170. At his pro day or maybe it was his combine I think I recall him running 4.47 his vert being 33, standing LJ 8’9, and bench reps 23. All in all not great numbers to make up for his size. While I don’t think he is blazing fast (don’t think he lost a step as you may have suggested either) I think he is fast enough and his ability to change direction is extraordinary although I do not remember his pro-agilty time. It just seems that the kid could play football (great field vision, great balance prehaps).
Just for arguements sake if I had to guess I bet he could step on the track and pop-off a 6.5x-6.6x 55/ 7.0-7.1 60 time. Thoughts?
It’s funny about Sproles. He appears to be 2x faster than anyone else on the field. Probably because he’s something I like to call uh “fresh”. These NFL teams will play their starters with broken arms, broken legs, etc. They even tried to start LT who is a clunker at the moment…oh he can’t make any cuts now but he can run straight ahead….grrreat. Hey look how FAST Sproles is! Na…he’s just not beat to shit from the season. Kinda like having me race Brian Clay after the 1500 in a decath…
Height / Weight: 5-61/8, 187 lbs (per the Combine weigh-in)
Combine Numbers: 4.46 40 (tied for 3rd best out of 21 RBs), 1.55 10 (2nd out of 21), 23 reps of 225 (4th out of 22), 3.96 short shuttle (1st out of 19), 6.96 3-cone (tied for 3rd out of 20)
Strengths: vision, change-of-direction, acceleration, balance, hands
Weaknesses: size, power, pass protection(?)
NFL Comparison: Barry Sanders
While at ksu I spoke to the head SC at the time Rod Cole and darren squatted over 600lbs using a safety bar, they never used a str bar for squats.
I saw something online that claims he has over an 800 lb “safe squat”. I’m assuming that is holding onto the powerrack but still. I highly doubt 600 on the safety bar as well (maybe quarter squat).
From HuskerExtra:
Also, wide receiver Matt Donahue – who joined the team last January as a walk-on after playing as a true freshman at Ohio – is turning his attention to track at NU. He’ll no longer play football
This is a 10.73, 21.83, 48.xx sprinter who decided track suited himself more than Football.
I’ve got a freshmen at my school who played football in High school and runs a 10.8, 21.95, and 48.x and he decided to focus on track too.
Still more of an outlier than the norm I would say.
From HuskerExtra:
[quote]
Also, wide receiver Matt Donahue – who joined the team last January as a walk-on after playing as a true freshman at Ohio – is turning his attention to track at NU. He’ll no longer play football
This is a 10.73, 21.83, 48.xx sprinter who decided track suited himself more than Football.[/quote]For every 1 kid that makes that choice there are 20 that don’t. 20 would-be D1 college track sprinters, jumpers, or throwers who will never have the opportunity to reach national or international class levels. We only hear about the ones who are SOOOO insanely talented that they maintain elite speed despite the extra weight and not being trained as track athletes (like Deion, Herschel, Bennett, etc). We don’t hear about the ones with numbers like the guy you just mentioned who might very well go on to become an elite 200m or 400m guy if he focused on track.
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Mike:
I think we probably lose far more potentially better sprinters (this extends to all events really) because they were late bloomers who by the time they were 20 or 21 probably would have passed the 10.6s 100m kid who was running 10.8s as a freshmen in HS than we do to the NFL or other sports, I certainly don’t think we lose many sprinters to the NBA or other sports, but we maybe lose those who could be elite jumpers or vaulters to the NBA. If anything we lose more athletes (all events) to the NFL than any other sport, but that’s because we have football coaches who don’t think track is worthwhile and cuts into the spring practice routine. Just imagine how much better Oklahoma would be if more its athletes spent time doing track than practicing in the spring to get the constant single calls and formations right come fall.
The sport system in America is fueled by specialization and marketing now and this will continue to kill all sports as kids will drop out more, get injured more often, and get sick of a sport sooner destroying motivation. How can someone honestly tell Jeff Demps he’s a football player and not a track guy? He’s 5’6″ and 165 lbs and the NFL wants 225 lb running backs at 6’1 or 6’2″ so they can have more Cedrick Benson’s, Eddie George’s, Kijana Carter’s, and less Warrick Dunn’s and Marshall Faulk’s. Barry Sanders would have had trouble being a first rounder in today’s day and age, much less getting any playing time because he was only 5’8″ 190lbs coming out of Oklahoma St.
BTW, If Deion increased his body mass by 20% in his career in the NFL I’ll eat crow, he may have gained 5lbs in his career, but if the guys discussed get drafted higher than the 4th round I will be extremely surprised as I only think Spiller has an opportunity to be drafted higher the 6th round and rest are likely not to be drafted at all because of their current size and the mindset of coaches and GM’s in the NFL. If anyone drafts these players it will likely be the Falcons, Steelers, Colts, Chargers, or Patriots and whoever Shanahan coaches next whom all happen to be playoff teams with loaded rosters, because they aren’t copycat teams who draft unconditionally (Falcons being an exception with their new GM), but making those teams will be extremely tough at the skill positions.
IMO, late bloomer = talent is still there but was untapped because of poor coaching, poor work ethic, lack of dedication, slow maturation, etc. In most cases I think a coach with a keen eye can pick out the ones who have ‘it.’
I didn’t say Deion put on 20% body mass did I? I just said we lost a potentially world class sprinter to football (actually to baseball too!) in his case.
Also, if you’re Jeff Demps, and you get drafted in the 4-5th round after a couple years of collegiate ball, you’ll likely still make as much money as you would if he were a top track guy with a much higher salary ceiling in football.
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IMO, late bloomer = talent is still there but was untapped because of poor coaching, poor work ethic, lack of dedication, slow maturation, etc. In most cases I think a coach with a keen eye can pick out the ones who have ‘it.’
I didn’t say Deion put on 20% body mass did I? I just said we lost a potentially world class sprinter to football (actually to baseball too!) in his case.
Also, if you’re Jeff Demps, and you get drafted in the 4-5th round after a couple years of collegiate ball, you’ll likely still make as much money as you would if he were a top track guy with a much higher salary ceiling in football.
I don’t think coaches have a keen eye for the ones who have it. It doesn’t take much training to transform a 20-23 year old who doesn’t have much training, but how in the heck are you supposed to tell if they do?
Do you really think someone is going to pick up Demps in the 4th or 5th round? The NFL doesn’t like small guys. The reasoning by the NFL coaches, scouts and GMs is stupid, but no ever called a bunch of copycats brilliant either. Most NFL teams draft guys who can’t hit holes or run zone routes (seam or sitdown routes) and who relied on exceptional line play to open up 4 foot wide holes in HS and College or their speed to run under fades or posts. Unless something changes, and it most likely will not with the way the NFL recycles coaches. All the players we have talked about who currently sprint don’t have much of a chance making the NFL on the active roster.
Here’s a list of some current NFL guys I can think of that may have had potential as track athletes:
Michael Vick
Tatum Bell
Michael Bennett
Reggie Bush
Jamaal Charles
Warrick Dunn
Chris Johnson
Felix Jones
Maurice Jones-Drew
Darren McFadden
Jerious Norwood
Willie Parker
Adrian Peterson
Clinton Portis
Darren Sproles
LaDainian Tomlinson
Michael Turner
Leon Washington
Brian Westbrook
Garrett Wolfe
Danny Woodhead
Bernard Berrian
Jeremy Bloom
Steve Breaston
Laveranues Coles
Kevin Curtis
Donald Driver
Braylon Edwards
Lee Evans
Larry Fitzgerald
Joey Galloway
Ted Ginn Jr.
Anthony Gonzalez
Skyler Green
Dante Hall
Devin Hester
Santonio Holmes
Torry Holt
DeSean Jackson
Andre Johnson
Calvin Johnson
Chad Johnson
Matt Jones
Ashlie Lelie
Brandon Marshall
Randy Moss
Santana Moss
Sinorice Moss
Terrell Owens
Roscoe Parrish
Jerry Porter
Antwaan Randle El
Steve Smith
Limas Sweed
Wes Welker
Roy Williams
Champ Bailey
Ronde Barber
Phillip Buchanon
Antonio Cromartie
DeAngelo Hall
Tye Hill
Adam Jones
Sam Madison
Chris McAlister
Terrence Newman
Troy Polamalu
Ed Reed
Antrel Rolle
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
Allen Rossum
Patrick Surtain
Nathan Vasher
Fabian Washington
Tom Zbikowski
I count 75 NFL players that have / had potential as elite track athletes, and I’m sure I missed several (not familiar with alot of “no name” defensive backs). It’s also worth mentioning that these are only the guys we lose to football who are actually good enough to be in the NFL. This is a huge “robbing” of talent from the track pool in the U.S. and probably has large impact in our international success.
Also, when you consider these guys you should think of how fast they might be if they lost 20-40 lbs and actually trained for track!
I disagree on almost everything,,,(Demps is also 180-5 not 165 ).
Time will tell us, he has insane football talent too, to see the hole and so.
Maybe Barry would’n t be a 1st rounder, but will still be the greatest running back ever.
Demps is not 180-5 even if you put a 10lb weight vest on him. If he is then that’s the reason he’s now the 3rd or 4th fastest on his team as going from 165-170 lb at the Olympic Trials to 180 lbs in 6 months is hard to do without reducing training volumes.
Need to check your list twice, some of those guys should be taken off.. Clinton ran track at the UM and his best was 6.52 in the 55m and Ed reed was a jav thrower.
Here’s a list of some current NFL guys I can think of that may have had potential as track athletes:
Michael Vick
Tatum Bell
[b]Michael Bennett[/b]
Reggie Bush
[b]Jamaal Charles[/b]
Warrick Dunn
Chris Johnson
Felix Jones
Maurice Jones-Drew
Darren McFadden
Jerious Norwood
Willie Parker
Adrian Peterson
Clinton Portis
Darren Sproles
LaDainian Tomlinson
Michael Turner
Leon Washington
Brian Westbrook
Garrett Wolfe
Danny Woodhead
Bernard Berrian
Jeremy Bloom
Steve Breaston
Laveranues Coles
Kevin Curtis
[b]Donald Driver[/b]
Braylon Edwards
Lee Evans
Larry Fitzgerald
Joey Galloway
[b]Ted Ginn Jr.[/b]
Anthony Gonzalez
Skyler Green
Dante Hall
Devin Hester
Santonio Holmes
Torry Holt
DeSean Jackson
[b]Andre Johnson[/b]
Calvin Johnson
Chad Johnson
Matt Jones
Ashlie Lelie
Brandon Marshall
Randy Moss
Santana Moss
Sinorice Moss
Terrell Owens
Roscoe Parrish
Jerry Porter
Antwaan Randle El
Steve Smith
Limas Sweed
Wes Welker
[b]Roy Williams[/b]
Champ Bailey
Ronde Barber
Phillip Buchanon
Antonio Cromartie
DeAngelo Hall
Tye Hill
Adam Jones
Sam Madison
Chris McAlister
[b]Terrence Newman[/b]
Troy Polamalu
Ed Reed
Antrel Rolle
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
[b]Allen Rossum[/b]
Patrick Surtain
Nathan Vasher
Fabian Washington
Tom ZbikowskiI count 75 NFL players that have / had potential as elite track athletes, and I’m sure I missed several (not familiar with alot of “no name” defensive backs). It’s also worth mentioning that these are only the guys we lose to football who are actually good enough to be in the NFL. This is a huge “robbing” of talent from the track pool in the U.S. and probably has large impact in our international success.
Also, when you consider these guys you should think of how fast they might be if they lost 20-40 lbs and actually trained for track!
Need to check your list twice, some of those guys should be taken off.. Clinton ran track at the UM and his best was 6.52 in the 55m and Ed reed was a jav thrower.
[quote author="beau_zo_brehm" date="1231887458"]Here’s a list of some current NFL guys I can think of that may have had potential as track athletes:
Michael Vick
Tatum Bell
[b]Michael Bennett[/b]
Reggie Bush
[b]Jamaal Charles[/b]
Warrick Dunn
Chris Johnson
Felix Jones
Maurice Jones-Drew
Darren McFadden
Jerious Norwood
Willie Parker
Adrian Peterson
Clinton Portis
Darren Sproles
LaDainian Tomlinson
Michael Turner
Leon Washington
Brian Westbrook
Garrett Wolfe
Danny Woodhead
Bernard Berrian
Jeremy Bloom
Steve Breaston
Laveranues Coles
Kevin Curtis
[b]Donald Driver[/b]
Braylon Edwards
Lee Evans
Larry Fitzgerald
Joey Galloway
[b]Ted Ginn Jr.[/b]
Anthony Gonzalez
Skyler Green
Dante Hall
Devin Hester
Santonio Holmes
Torry Holt
DeSean Jackson
[b]Andre Johnson[/b]
Calvin Johnson
Chad Johnson
Matt Jones
Ashlie Lelie
Brandon Marshall
Randy Moss
Santana Moss
Sinorice Moss
Terrell Owens
Roscoe Parrish
Jerry Porter
Antwaan Randle El
Steve Smith
Limas Sweed
Wes Welker
[b]Roy Williams[/b]
Champ Bailey
Ronde Barber
Phillip Buchanon
Antonio Cromartie
DeAngelo Hall
Tye Hill
Adam Jones
Sam Madison
Chris McAlister
[b]Terrence Newman[/b]
Troy Polamalu
Ed Reed
Antrel Rolle
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie
[b]Allen Rossum[/b]
Patrick Surtain
Nathan Vasher
Fabian Washington
Tom ZbikowskiI count 75 NFL players that have / had potential as elite track athletes, and I’m sure I missed several (not familiar with alot of “no name” defensive backs). It’s also worth mentioning that these are only the guys we lose to football who are actually good enough to be in the NFL. This is a huge “robbing” of talent from the track pool in the U.S. and probably has large impact in our international success.
Also, when you consider these guys you should think of how fast they might be if they lost 20-40 lbs and actually trained for track!
[/quote]
Why not be useful and update the list and add times and events.
Tedd ginn! wahoooooo!!!! superstar…was there at high school state champs in Ohio when he ran stupid times! he’d be a star for sure…
Tedd ginn! wahoooooo!!!! superstar…was there at high school state champs in Ohio when he ran stupid times! he’d be a star for sure…
Ya I put him and a few other guys with proven times in bold.
As far as sprinters on your list, only 2 guys I know have proven sub 10.2 and 20.5 capabilities and one of them isn’t even hilighted and a couple of others are like Woodhead (listed) and Griffin (unlisted) proven 60m guys. Some guys like Wolfe, Jones-Drew, Turner are just football players and would likely have marginalized track and field careers thus don’t belong. Other guys don’t belong like Zibokowski, Washington, Westbrook, and Barber. Jeremy Bloom is an intriguing listing as I don’t know why he didn’t take up track and field to go along with his skiing instead of football with his size and skiing was always going to be an issue come football season.
As far as sprinters on your list, only 2 guys I know have proven sub 10.2 and 20.5 capabilities and one of them isn’t even hilighted and a couple of others are like Woodhead (listed) and Griffin (unlisted) proven 60m guys. Some guys like Wolfe, Jones-Drew, Turner are just football players and would likely have marginalized track and field careers thus don’t belong. Other guys don’t belong like Zibokowski, Washington, Westbrook, and Barber. Jeremy Bloom is an intriguing listing as I don’t know why he didn’t take up track and field to go along with his skiing instead of football with his size and skiing was always going to be an issue come football season.
Apparently Ronde Barber won the national title in the 55 meter dash as a senior in HS. That comes directly from wikipedia…. so it must be true ;). I know the list isn’t perfect, but I thought it would be a good reference to spark discussion.
can i also say…i went to college with Nate Washington for one year and he easily could run 10.2 with a little specific training…
can i also say…i went to college with Nate Washington for one year and he easily could run 10.2 with a little specific training…
I was referring to Fabian Washington.
oh hahahhaha!
Don’t know him…
[quote author="Nick Newman" date="1231921683"]can i also say…i went to college with Nate Washington for one year and he easily could run 10.2 with a little specific training…
I was referring to Fabian Washington.[/quote]
Apparently he ran a 4.29 40 yd dash at the combine, so that’s not too shabby. I have no idea what his track times are though.
[quote author="dbandre" date="1231922270"][quote author="Nick Newman" date="1231921683"]can i also say…i went to college with Nate Washington for one year and he easily could run 10.2 with a little specific training…
I was referring to Fabian Washington.[/quote]
Apparently he ran a 4.29 40 yd dash at the combine, so that’s not too shabby. I have no idea what his track times are though.[/quote]
He did and he was a 100m regional champion at 100m in HS, a 10.6x. Granted he ran the fastest 40yd dash, but as we have stated 30m or 36.5m in this instance doesn’t always equal 100m success.
Apparently, Zbikowski ran 4.44 that was reported as 4.52 so I guess combine times are just f’ed. However, I don’t think Zbikowski was going to pick track over boxing or football.
Possessor of world-class ability in the high jump as a track athlete, he also participated in the decathlon, long jump and triple jump
Was named as the outstanding field performer in the SWAC, honoring both indoor and outdoor seasons, three straight years (1996-98)
Qualified for the 1996 Olympic Field Trials in the high jump with a leap of 7 feet, 6½ inches (ranked No. 1 in the nation that year), accomplished at the 37th annual Pelican Relays
Was the 1996 SWAC champion (indoor and outdoor) in the long jump, triple jump and decathlon, finishing second in the high jump
Was the 1997 SWAC champion (indoor and outdoor) in the long jump and triple jump, again coming in second in the high jump
Also was the ’97 SWAC (outdoor) champ in the decathlon
Qualified for the 1997 NCAA Championships in the long jump with a leap of 25 feet, 5 inches
Was the 1998 SWAC (indoor) champion in the long jump (25-5), triple jump (50-2) and high jump (7-2)
Was the 1999 SWAC (indoor) champion in the long jump (25-0) and triple jump (51-3); he came in third in the high jump
