RaZon
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True, but at this point he's played 5 seasons in the NFL, so I don't know if we can compare his speed development to professional world class sprinters.
I'm guessing Bob Hayes has the fastest 100 meter time of any NFL player, and if the 1964 Olympics were run on a modern track, he would've easily clocked under 10 seconds.
Hill is faster than any current NFLer. And with a few weeks to work on that all important speed endurance I do believe he could be competitive in the 200m right now today. That HS 20.14 is a great time.
Bob Hayes ran a 10.06 on a shoddy dirt track**** and if he'd been in a middle lane between Figureola and Jerome he's running a 9.9 that day in Tokyo. He is the fastest pro football player ever.
But......tiny Trindon Holliday has ran a 10.00, Jacoby Ford 10.01 and Jeff Demps also 10.01. Forget Jimmy Hines at 9.95 that was a failed experiment. While Holliday, Ford and Demps have clocked a faster 100m, they ran that on a far FAR better quality of a track.
If Hayes had stayed in track until 68 he's beating Hines up in Mexico City in 9.90, he would have been 26.
The sub 10.10 gang....
Ron Brown 10.06 Olympian
Sam Graddy 10.09 Olympian
Alvis Whitted 10.07
Darrel Green 10.08
**** for some unknown reason Hayes was in lane one a lane that had been chopped up by the distance runners.
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