No more slow athletes please all skill positions need to have 40 times of 4.6 or lower 4.4 4.3 is what all should be at but exceptions can be made for extreme talent this doesn't fit that bill.
You're not gonna find many high school LBs that size who can run like Miller. He's somewhere in the 4.6 range at 6'3 and 200+.
This kid looks slow and plays slow I'm going off his film
You also said all skill players should be 4.4 4.3. Do you realize how rare a 4.4 is? People on here act like it's standard for a HS or college player to run a 4.4.
I train high school and college athletes and the guy that owns the facility I use trains a few NFL guys. 2 guys at the whole facility run below a 4.5. 1 is at University of TN and is their "weightroom warrior" S&C mvp the last 2 years and runs in the low 4.4 and the other is an NFL CB for the Titans right now. 2 other guys, 1 at UT that just had a season ending injury was in the high 4.5 at safety and the other is an athlete at Army is a high 4.5.
It's not common. Elite speed at LB for a senior in high school is anything below a 4.7. DB is probably below a 4.55.
People really just don't have a clue when it comes to speed. They see hand-timed, wind-aided 39 yard dash times and think they're legit. A guy running a real, laser timed 4.60 is extremely fast. At the Combine these guys train for the event and they still aren't running legitimate 40 times under 4.50 etc.
There were four Edge players at the NFL Combine run a legitimate 4.60 or lower- Vic Beasley 4.53, Bud Dupree 4.56, Eli Harold 4.60, Dante Fowler 4.60. Those are the elite prospects at the position!
The average OLB 40 time over the past 16 years at the NFL Combine is 4.69, with an average weight of 240 pounds. That is the best college prospects after they've been training specifically for the event!
The average CB at the NFL Combine over the past 16 years is 4.50. That is the fastest of any position group. WR is next at 4.51, then RB at 4.56, then FS at 4.57.
The best college prospects, after three to five years of real S & C, then training specifically for the event testing, put up the above numbers. Stop with this madness about every kid running a "legitimate" 4.3 etc. There have been 14 kids who have put up a laser timed 40 under 4.30 seconds since 1999. Now, I believe Dorsett is faster than the "official" 4.33 he put up, but a few of the kids who went under 4.30 were really track guys trying to play football.
Finally, here is the list of the top 40 times:
Chris Johnson- 4.24
CJ Spiller- 4.27
Dri Archer- 4.26
Marquise Goodwin- 4.27
Jacoby Ford- 4.28
J.J. Nelson- 4.28
Mike Wallace- 4.29
Johnny Knox- 4.29
Demarcus Van Dyke- 4.25
Stanford Routt- 4.27
Champ Bailey- 4.28
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie- 4.29
Fabian Washington- 4.29
A mixed bag of players, and the biggest guy was actually Mike Wallace at 199 pounds. Breshad Perriman might have been the biggest, but he ran his at a Pro Day when times are always faster.
40 time is so, unbelievably, vastly overrated in football players. Explosive movements in short areas is the key to football.
