re: Speedy Noil's Combine #'s from NFL Experience

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That 4.7 is from a straight line race at the NFL experience. It may or may not be 40 yards, but it wasn't a cone drill.

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Yeah it is 40 yards. LINK

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11. Under Armour's Run To Daylight-Race down the field against your opponents in a 40-yard test of speed

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Probably didn't try that hard?

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That 4.7 is from a straight line race at the NFL experience.

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I didn't go to this year's NFL experience, but this event in the past had a big mat you jumped on to at the end instead of running through the finish like a typical timed 40. I'm sure that causes a guy to pull up a little at the end.

I actually was in charge of this event at the NFL Fan Experience last week. I had no clue Speedy ran, but I did have one of my other managers tell me a kid from Karr ran a decent time. And I must say the times were total crap though. They had a deal where whoever ran the fastest time of the day got a $100 Under Armour gift card and if anybody could beat Torrie Smith's 4.43, they would get a $1,000 gift card. Former LSU track guy Gerald Green (ran a 10.65 back in his glory days) is still in great shape for his age and ran in attempt to beat the 4.43. He even clocked a 4.7 something and I watched him eat up the track. So if Speedy ran a 4.7, it had to have been much faster, probably 4.4-4.5. All the times were bull crap because the guy announcing the event would start the clock right after he said go. In every legit combine I have attended and seen they start the clock on the runners first movement, not when the man with a microphone says go. So don't but into the 4.7, it really was faster.

Noil runs a legit 4.4.