Two days after John Ro s ran , he received a tweet from Bo Jackson that said Welcome to the 4.22 and under club.As you can see, Bo knows Twitter. 4.22??? well done young man. Welcome to the 4.22 under club. P.S. Don't get a speeding ticket. Bo Jackson (@BoJackson) If that tweet sounds slightly confusing, it should, because If Ro s set the combine record for the fastest 40, then how could anyone else J.R. Richard Jersey be in the 4.22 and under club?Thats where the legend of Bo Jackson comes in.Although Ro s broke the combine record, he kind of didnt. With his run on Saturday, Ro s is generally considered to have set the modern combine record, which dates back to 2000, when the NFL started using electronic timing for the 40.Before Ro s run, s 4.24 40 in 2008 was the modern record.Of course, there were plenty of 40s run before 2000, and thats where Jackson comes in. Legend has it that Bo ran a 4.12 40 at the combine in 1986. Over the past 30 years, the legend continued to grow until last year, when Jackson (kind of) debunked it. First, he didnt run a 4.12 -- he ran a 4.13. And he didt run that time at the combine -- he ran it at what we know today as Auburns Pro Day.Jackson explained the exactly what ESPN. I was on my way to track practice, and they had the combine there -- there had to be 20 to 30 guys there -- and Jose Altuve Jersey we were inside running, Jackson said. The coach says, Hey Bo, we got a bunch of scouts here from all over the country, and we got a little combine here, theyre timing guys for the 40, why dont you come in and run a 40 for them. Jackson didnt want to mi s Jose Cruz Jr. Jersey track practice, but he liked his coach, so he decided to run a 40.I ran my first 40, and about 5 yards from the finish line, I just kind of let up and cruised through, and I ran a 4.3, Jackson explained. As Im walking back, my coach is walking toward me, he said Hey, why dont you run the damn 40, give these people what they want. So I said, Alright, but you gotta open the back door.Jacksons problem was that if he ran full speed, he wasnt going to have room to slow down, so he needed someone to open the back door at the Auburn facility so hed have more room to finish his run. After the door was opened, thats when history supposedly happened. I didnt find out until after track practice what I had run on the second 40 , Jackson said. Some of the guys that had stop Anthony Gose Jersey watches had me at 3.9 and four flat, but the electronic timer had gotten me at a 4.13.Although it was generally believed that Jackson was hand-timed on his 4.13 40, he says it was electronically timed. For comparison, several scouts had Ro s hand-timed at a 4.16, according to NFLDraftScouts Dane Brugler.Jacksons 40-time is believed to be the fastest that any NFL player has ever run where there were multiple witne ses. Its hard to keep track of how fast anyone ran before 2000 because of spotty record-keeping, which happened because most players were hand-timed. For instance, Deion Sanders was long believed to have run a 4.21 at the 1989 combine. However, a printout of the records from that day that were kept by Gerrit Cole Jersey former NFL general manager Charley Ca serly shows . Its not clear if that was the official time or if thats what Ca serly hand-timed him at.The thing about Jackson is that anyone who ever saw him play would probably agree that a 4.13 was well within his limits. For historical purposes, lets all agree that Ro s has the fastest 40 ever run at the combine, and Bo has the fastest 40 ever run by any NFL player.
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