Mack Herron
Pro Bowl Player
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Is there any other way for the casual fan to measure a pro running back's speed that I don't know of?
You can actually measure measure speed on film sometimes, which is closer to what they refer to as "football speed" as distinct from track speed. Famously mentioned with regard to Jerry Rice's lack of timed speed. Did you see Ridley get run down from behind in the preseason like a wounded calf? He runs out of gas pretty quickly. My only point is that everyone who as had timed 40 yd runs knows there can be variation in different heats, days, tracks etc. Would be better to have a mean time with a standard deviation for example. None of us really knows of course.