TO is fast, but it’s not * so * fast
Now I know why Terrell Owens has spent a decade talking about returning to the NFL. It is still fast as hell.
Owens, 46, recently worked with Chiefs catcher Tyreek Hill in a session Hill posted on his YouTube channel. They decided to make a 100-yard run (with Owens gaining a 10-yard lead) for $ 1,000 and Hill, probably the fastest receiver in the NFL, was unable to catch Owens.
Since TO appears not to have missed a step, they decided to run on the 40-yard dash, this time with no downside. Hill beat Owens in just a couple of steps. It was an impressive performance, made even more remarkable when one of the available coaches claimed to have seen Hill. He said his stopwatch had Hill at 4.37 seconds, and that Owens must have been “approximately 4.4, 4.42”.
Points of sale like Bleacher Report promoted the time of 4.4 seconds. If you search Twitter for TO and 4.4, you’ll find tons of people talking about how you need to be back in the NFL. If he had really run a 4.4 40, of course, he should get an NFL contract. But he obviously didn’t run that fast.
I put Hill’s video in editing software so I could cut it frame by frame to time the race accurately. Hill ran her 40s in 4.6 seconds. Owens was 4.9.
That is still incredibly fast, especially for a 46 year old man! If Owens ran that time in the 2020 NFL combine, he would be on par with plenty of tight ends and pass riders. When he ran the 40 on the 1996 combine (before the introduction of electronic timing), he was clocked at 4.65 seconds, not far from what he ran against Hill.
The race also shows how fine the margins are between great speed and elite speed. Hill is one of the fastest players in the league. He can run faster than a 4.6 (he ran 4.29 on the NFL combine in 2016) but maybe not in the sun after running another race. Owens was only a couple of steps behind him, which is an incredible feat for a guy 20 years older than Hill, but in the NFL those two steps are the difference between a tackle and a touchdown.
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