Out kick the Coverage Mailbag Question:
"Jadeveon Clowney supposedly registered these numbers at the end of South Carolina winter weight room: 283lbs, 4.55 40, and a 44 inch vertical leap. If these are valid how freakish can we expect his combine to be with 2-3 months of training just for these drills on his own? Best combine performance ever? Who has the best combine performance ever right now?"
I'd argue that the greatest combine performance ever currently belongs to Vernon Davis.
Davis ran a 4.38 forty at 6'3" 254 pounds and he also vertical jumped 42 inches and bench pressed 225 33 times.
That's just unbelievable.
If Clowney ran a 4.55 at 283 pounds and registered a 44 inch vertical leap, he'd be close to challenging Vernon Davis for best combine performance of all time.
But here's the problem, all college numbers are inflated.
It's probably more likely that Clowney runs a 4.65, has a 38 inch vertical.
Those are still mind-blowing numbers, but you can generally adjust all high school and college numbers higher. That's because high school and college trainers lie about times to make themselves look better.
It stands to reason that after four years of training everyone would get faster, right? Yet, as I've written for years, most high school and college forty times are complete crap, reduced to make the players look faster than they actually are because it makes the strength coaches look like they're doing a better job.
SB Nation actually did the research on high school forty times compared to NFL combine times. The results are not pretty. Everyone provides time that are much faster than they actually are. Some guys were .6 seconds off of the times they claimed in high school, which is like eight yards different.
This is why I return to my mantra, you can't break a 5.0 in the forty.
Link: http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/all-that-and-a-bag-of-mail-the-most-hated-sports-city-in-america.php
"Jadeveon Clowney supposedly registered these numbers at the end of South Carolina winter weight room: 283lbs, 4.55 40, and a 44 inch vertical leap. If these are valid how freakish can we expect his combine to be with 2-3 months of training just for these drills on his own? Best combine performance ever? Who has the best combine performance ever right now?"
I'd argue that the greatest combine performance ever currently belongs to Vernon Davis.
Davis ran a 4.38 forty at 6'3" 254 pounds and he also vertical jumped 42 inches and bench pressed 225 33 times.
That's just unbelievable.
If Clowney ran a 4.55 at 283 pounds and registered a 44 inch vertical leap, he'd be close to challenging Vernon Davis for best combine performance of all time.
But here's the problem, all college numbers are inflated.
It's probably more likely that Clowney runs a 4.65, has a 38 inch vertical.
Those are still mind-blowing numbers, but you can generally adjust all high school and college numbers higher. That's because high school and college trainers lie about times to make themselves look better.
It stands to reason that after four years of training everyone would get faster, right? Yet, as I've written for years, most high school and college forty times are complete crap, reduced to make the players look faster than they actually are because it makes the strength coaches look like they're doing a better job.
SB Nation actually did the research on high school forty times compared to NFL combine times. The results are not pretty. Everyone provides time that are much faster than they actually are. Some guys were .6 seconds off of the times they claimed in high school, which is like eight yards different.
This is why I return to my mantra, you can't break a 5.0 in the forty.
Link: http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/all-that-and-a-bag-of-mail-the-most-hated-sports-city-in-america.php
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