Success of "fastest" WRs since '00

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(04-13-2018, 05:51 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Actually, pretty much all talk about 40 time is cut off by 2000 (or rather more accurately 1999) because that's when they started using mechanical assistance in timing the 40.

It's why you'll hear tales of Bo Jackson timing 4.12 for his 40. It was just a bunch of guys sitting up in the seats hand timing and it produced wildly different times when you consider that a reaction time difference on start/stop of just 1/10ths of a second each, would turn a 4.3 into a 4.5, or into a 4.1... and that would be 3 guys all timing the same player.

It's also why prior to Ross, Chris Johnson was the "fastest" because he did it in the mechanically timed era, and anything prior to then isn't counted as official towards records.

 I understand what you are saying, but fast is fast. The only difference between now and then is, that the stop is electronic. Start is still by hand.

So Moss and Galloway, who ran and were timed at the combine, would at worse run 4.3s timed with electronic stop - based on your 1/10 differential.

Moss, Darrel Green, Bo, Dion, Coles, Gault, etc., were fast. Not just because of their hand timed 40 suggested, but you saw it on the field.  

The second point is the cutoff of 4.3. So what is fast? At 4.3, one leaves out Julio Jones, Brandin Cooks and DeSean Jackson. They were timed with electronic stop.