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Originally Posted by Keith
Yeah, 40 times are amazingly overrated. I'm not even going to look at them this year unless a CB or WR runs over 4.87 and not at all for any other position. There is so little in the game where players are asked to run full speed for 40 yards.
I think Terrell Suggs ran really slooooowwww, too... in spite of video evidence showing he had a lethal first step. Hopefully one of these guys shows poorly at the combine and drops out of the top 10.
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I think a 10 yard time, in pads, from a traditional stance for your position would have a lot more relevance. It's too easy to go to a track coach and work on your start and technique and shave off precious hundredths of a second that have no correlation to the football field. 3 cone and shuttle are more important than 40 IMO, but I don't have as good a grasp of what a good time for a position is in those drills...which is probably why the NFL will never get rid of it.