2022 WR Class - SPEED

[*ochocincos*]

This year's NFL draft WR class can be defined by one word - SPEED!

9 WRs ran a sub-4.40, which breaks the record that was set a few years ago, which was 7 WRs.
Tyquan Thornton ran an official 4.28, the fastest among the WRs.

Some of my guys I've mocked previously are included in the list of sub-4.40:
Calvin Austin III, WR Memphis - 4.32
Velus Jones, WR Tennessee - 4.31
Alec Pierce, WR Cincinnati - 4.33

Christian Watson from NDSU, at 6'4" 208 lbs, ran a 4.36. He's one of the very few WRs to ever get a 10.0 RAS.

If times hold and projected splits are anywhere near this, Christian Watson could own a 10.00 #RAS, ranking just below Calvin Johnson.

WR has two 10.00 scores because we have more than 2,000 players in the group. pic.twitter.com/LkF0xI1lce

— Kent Lee Platte (@MathBomb) March 4, 2022

Another relative stat is that while this is the fastest group of WRs in Combine history, it's also the smallest.
The average weight of the prospects is 196 lbs.

The TE group, on the other hand, was rather disappointing from an athletic standpoint. Some guys really stood out though. Jelani Woods, Dan Bellinger, and Chigoziem Okonkwo. Okonkwo was the fastest (by far), but Woods was arguably the best when you compare to his size (6'7", 259 lb).