Tee Higgins…. Steelers have Interest

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(04-18-2024, 12:21 AM)Whatever Wrote: Next Gen stats weren't even a thing for most of AJ's career.

FWIW, AJ ran a 4.48 at the Combine.  Higgins ran 4.59, over a tenth slower. They do not have similar deep speed.  

Next gen came out in 2014.

40 times are a good bar and something to measure against. But straight line 40 speed in gym shorts is not the best indicator of football speed. You know that.

Derrick Henry ran a 4.59 40, yet he has had some of the fastest plays in the nfl since 2020.

This year (age 30) - Derrick Henry reached a top speed of 21.68 mph on his 69-yard run, tied for the 7th-fastest speed by a ball carrier this season, and Henry's fastest play since Week 6, 2021 (career-high 21.80 mph).

Long story short, Derrick Henry has run as fast in a game as Jamar Chase, and he was over 2 tenths of a second slower running in shorts.