TO is fast, but it is not * that * fast
Now I know why Terrell Owens spent a decade talking about his return to the NFL. He’s still as fast as hell.
Owens, 46, recently worked with Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill in a session Hill posted to his YouTube channel. They decided to go for a 100-yard run (with Owens having a 10-yard lead) for $ 1,000 and Hill, possibly the fastest receiver in the NFL, couldn’t catch Owens.
As TO does not seem to have lost a stage, they decided to run in the 40 meter dash, this time without a handicap. Hill beat Owens by a few strides. It was an impressive performance, made even more remarkable by the moment one of the coaches on site claimed to have pointed at Hill. He said his stopwatch had Hill at 4.37 seconds, and Owens should be “around 4.4, 4.42”.
Outlets like Bleacher Report grabbed the headlines for 4.4 seconds. If you search Twitter for the name of TO and 4.4, you’ll find tons of people talking about the need for him to come back to the NFL. If he had really executed a 4.4 40, of course he would have to get a contract with the NFL. But he obviously didn’t run that fast.
I put Hill’s video in editing software so that I could cut it frame by frame to accurately time the race. Hill ran his 40 in 4.6 seconds. Owens was 4.9 years old.
It’s still incredibly fast, especially for a 46 year old! If Owens raced in the 2020 NFL combine this time around, he would be tied with plenty of tight ends and passing rushers. When he ran 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 high speed and elite speed. Hill is one of the fastest players in the league. It can run faster than a 4.6 (it ran 4.29 at the NFL combine in 2016) but maybe not in the scorching sun after just running another race. Owens was only a few strides behind him, which is an incredible achievement for a guy 20 years older than Hill, but in the NFL those few strides make the difference between a tackle and a touchdown.
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