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What is the average time for a 40-yard dash?
Average time by position 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. The following average times were measured between 2000 and 2012 at the NFL combine for players who played at least 5 games.
What is a fast 40-yard dash time for high school?
93 players ran a sub-4.5 second 40 yard dash in high school. By the time they finished college, just 40 players were capable of breaking the 4.5-second mark.
How fast is a 4.9 40-yard dash in mph?
About 26 mph. If you have a 40-yard dash time, divide it into 80 to get an approximate miles per hour speed. So, if you have a 5 second 40-yard dash, you are going about 16 mph. If you have an 8 second 40-yard dash, you are going about 10 mph.
Is a 5 second 40-Yard Dash good?
A 5.0 forty time is actually fast for your average guy. I’ll put it to you this way, if you wanted to make a second career out of betting guys at bars that they couldn’t break a 5.0 forty you could become a forty hustler.
What was odells 40-yard dash?
LSU wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. ran an unofficial 4.31 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Is the 40 yard dash similar to the 60 yard dash?
In fact, those races are very close to the 60 yard (almost 55 meters) standard baseball uses to time prospects and closely mimics the king of all football combine events…the 40 yard dash. We are often asked what constitutes a good 55 or 60 meter sprint in terms of translation to football speed?
Who is the fastest player in the 40 yard dash?
Should current Florida Gator Jeffery Demps make it to the NFL for any significant amount of time, he will own the fastest time at 10.01. Demps ran this as a high schooler and owns the national prep record for the event. The fastest recorded 40 yard split on record belongs to Olympian Maurice Greene.
What’s the average reaction time in a 40 yard dash?
Studies have shown that that average reaction time by a human to a starter’s pistol is .25 seconds. For this reason, anyone who compares a 40-yard split time in a 100 meter event and compares it to reported hand timed 40-yard dash marks is making a big mistake.
What was Justin Gatlin’s 40 yard dash split?
If you want compare the 40-yard split of a runner in a 100 meter event, subtract .25 seconds from the recorded time. So, Olympic runner Justin Gatlin’s 4.42 forty-yard dash split recorded during his Gold Medal winning 9.85 100 meter run, would convert to a 4.17 forty yard dash by football standards.