Terrell Owens has been saying for years that he could still play in the NFL and as a result, he could be right. Although TO hasn’t played in an NFL game in nearly a decade, he apparently still has NFL speed and he showed it this week during a 40-yard run against Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill, which ended up being surprisingly close. .
In most cases, when you have one of the fastest players in the NFL career against a 46 year old, he will not be around and the 46 year old will probably have a heart attack, but this is not the most cases. .
Hill and Owens were working together recently when they decided to hold two races. The first run covered 100 yards and seemed to serve as a test run so Hill could measure how fast Owens is. In the 100-yard run, Hill gave Owens a 10-yard lead, which turned out to be too much, because TO ended up waiting for victory (you can see that run by clicking here).
In the second race, the two sprinters changed the distance to 40 yards, and that’s when things got interesting.
Um what. Owens’ victory would have been the surprise of the century, but the fact that he kept it so close was also quite surprising.
In the video, you can hear Hill’s coach say that Tyreek ran a 4.37 while TO ran a 4.40 to 4.42. Owens didn’t win the race, but running that kind of time at 46 is absolutely crazy. Most of the 46-year-olds would probably tear their hamstrings trying to compete with Hill, but Owens not only made it, but kept it close. (By the way, the race was timed by hand, so it’s entirely possible that the Last times weren’t completely accurate, however even if he had a tenth of a second to Owens’ time, 4.5 to 4.52 is still incredibly impressive.)
Owens was so fast that Hill congratulated the Hall of Fame on Twitter.
Owens last played in a 2010 NFL regular season game when he was with the Bengals, and since that last game, he has been insisting that he could still play. In 2017, Owens said it was a joke that no one was willing to sign it.
“Not being on the field right now is a joke, and I don’t care what people say,” Owens said at the time.
As a result, he could have had a point.
The former 49ers, Cowboys, Eagles, Bengals and Bills catcher was named All-Pro of the first team a total of five times during his Hall of Fame career, which spanned from 1996 to 2010.
