Hell leave as a solid mid-draft pick after making himself a staple at the top of the defensive lineman ranks across Thursdays drills. 1 Pick, The Case for C.J. Thats phenomenal for a linebacker. 5'9 / 175-185 lbs. The college football world had to wait a year on 2020 5-star prospect Kelee Ringo because of an injury. When maybe asked for comment, coach Kirk Ferentz could've told reporters that Iowa recruits slowness and ushers it to its slightly slower conclusion through excessive huddling and horizontal passing. Clocking a fast 40-yard dash doesn't guarantee that you'll have a successful NFL career. He's going to play with the best, against the best and be coached by the best at Alabama, so you can expect Leary to develop that speed into elite skills that are translatable to the pros. However, this was before the NFL Combine started to use the proper technology to record those 40 times. Those are some pretty amazing numbers, and it's going to be fun to watch him in Mike Leach's offense. Smith has a borderline first round pedigree, but also had several factors working against him. Our favorite two segments to analyze are 0-20 and 10-40, and the formula for success is simple: 2.70 seconds from 0-20 yards and 3.00 seconds from 10-40 yards. Acceleration is a revelation between the lines. If you cant dunk, the odds of you running a sub 5.0 forty are pretty much zero. Fran Duffy's position-by-position preview of the players in the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine continues as defensive coordinators look for matchup weapons in the secondary. According to a five-year NFL combine report, wide receivers and cornerbacks had the fastest average times at 4.48, followed by running backs at 4.49. . Washington WR John Ross set the record for the 40-yard dash in 2017. With that kind of speed, Mullen must find a way to get the ball . All of this had to be music to the ears of teams looking for front-seven help near the top of the 2023 NFL Draft. Coach Keys: Have a great combination of size & speed, and must change the LOS at the point of attack. Not every player who can scamper past others winds up affecting games, and some of the players on this list are still waiting to break through. This is because a human timer must react to the starters gun (creating a small delay in starting the clock), and also because human timers tend to anticipate the athletes crossing the finish line, and tend to stop the clock slightly early. Nolan Smith was the talk of the NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday after he posted a ridiculous time of 4.39 seconds in the 40-yard dash. The average college football player is nearly a tenth of a second slower (e.g., a NFL Combine 4.5 after a high school 4.4) after four to five years in a college strength and conditioning program as he was when he entered that program. 9 pick for the . It all depends on your weight and height and of course how fast you are but an average time for a 40 yard dash is 6.2 s ( or 6.7-7.3s) if you've heard 5.5 s than you're mistaken. The Tulsa, Oklahoma, native finished the abbreviated 2020 season with 44 tackles in six games. These edge rushers are flying. Or, on the other side of the ball, closing the gap with a ball-carrier in double time and arriving with an impact. The rising junior can impact a game in special teams and even on offense, and it's in part because of his blazing 4.3 speed.