Who is the fastest CB in the league?

[Frozen700]

if you bring up Newman running down Moss, than you have to bring up Lee Evans running down Newman :laugh2:


You have to count speed with pads because that's the only way they play...

oh yea forget about Newmans sick Knee....and plantar fascias(or watever) yea those played no factor

 

[HardHittingRoy31]

Justin Miller from the Jets. Fabian Washington ran a 4.2.

 

[AdamJT13]

I was always under the impression that Sanders had the fastest combine 40 time ever and considered the unofficial fastest NFL player.

When Deion ran it, it was fully hand-timed. Now it's a hand start and electronic finish. Using NFL 40-yard dash times can give you a ballpark figure for speed, but track times are precise.

 

[stealth]

They ran the 100 meters, too. Green's PR was 10.08, and Dickey's was 10.11.

Here's the list of everyone who had ever run faster than Terence Newman's 10.20 as of Dec. 31, 2007 --

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/jeube/RM100m.htm

There aren't many guys on that list who ever played in the NFL.

Here's the all-time list for the NFL (unless I'm missing any former NFL players on that list) --

9.95 Jimmy Hines
10.06 Bob Hayes
10.07 Alvis Whitted
10.08 Darrell Green
10.09 Sam Graddy
10.10 Willie Gault
10.11 Curtis Dickey
10.14 James Trapp
10.16 James Jett
10.17 Michael Bates
10.17 Sultan McCullough
10.18 Michael Bennett
10.18 Samie Parker
10.20 Terence Newman

Trindon Holliday (10.02) a running back and kick returner for LSU, would join the list if he ever makes it to the NFL. But at 5-foot-5, 159 pounds, I'm guessing he'll do what Xavier Carter did and give up football and pursue professional track.

whats funny about guys that short is they just don't look that fast.
Its stupid that a kid with legs that short could run a 10.02, just athleticism I can't fathom.

And, to be frank, no way in this day and age he passes on the draft, if chris johnson can get drafted in the first round and get paid, there is no way this kid passes on it. If I could run that fast and knew I couldn't play football, no matter what, if a team drafted me and said here is millions of dollars I would try till they knew I couldn't make it.

 

[AdamJT13]

Tye Hill of the Rams also has great speed.

Hill's PRs are 6.71 in the 60 and 10.27 in the 100.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Adam, what did you find for OJ Simpson?

And what about Ron Brown, the Rams kickoff returner from the 80s... I think he ran on our Olympic 4x100 team which I believe won gold.

 

[AdamJT13]

Adam, what did you find for OJ Simpson?

USC's track archives don't list him among their top 10 for the 100 meters (13 athletes at 10.23 or faster), so he either ran only the 100 yards (he's listed at 9.4 hand-timed) or never broke 10.23 in the 100 meters.

And what about Ron Brown, the Rams kickoff returner from the 80s... I think he ran on our Olympic 4x100 team which I believe won gold.

I added him. (When I went down the list, I thought he had played in the NFL, but my first search found a different Ron Brown in the NFL.)

 

[mrecktid]

oh yea forget about Newmans sick Knee....and plantar fascias(or watever) yea those played no factor

im sure they probably did play a factor, but it's not like he was limping out there...

im not saying he's not fast, just maybe not the fastest in the NFL

 

[DaBoys4Life]

does it matter fastest don't equal best at that position

 

[AsthmaField]

After looking at Adam's post the answer to this trivial little question is just too easy:

Jimmy Hines. Fastest. Corner. Ever. This year.

 

[AdamJT13]

After looking at Adam's post the answer to this trivial little question is just too easy:

Jimmy Hines. Fastest. Corner. Ever.

Hines was a wide receiver.

 

[speedkilz88]

Hines was a wide receiver.

He also never played after signing with the Dolphins.(according to wikipedia) I guess he never made it out of camp.

 

[theogt]

Trindon Holliday (10.02) a running back and kick returner for LSU, would join the list if he ever makes it to the NFL. But at 5-foot-5, 159 pounds, I'm guessing he'll do what Xavier Carter did and give up football and pursue professional track.

I hope he does go. It'd be fun to watch. Even if it was a brief career.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

LSU sucks

 

[AsthmaField]

Hines was a wide receiver.

I was trying (apparently unsuccessfully) to be funny. :

 

[AdamJT13]

He also never played after signing with the Dolphins.(according to wikipedia) I guess he never made it out of camp.

Not surprisingly, Wikipedia is wrong.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HineJi00.htm

http://www.nfl.com/players/jimmyhines/profile?id=HIN218570

Hines didn't play very much, but he did play for the Dolphins and the Chiefs.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I was trying (apparently unsuccessfully) to be funny. :

common theme w/ you, innit?

 

[playmakers]

Doesnt matter how fast you are in track; it matters how fast you are in pads. Deion Sanders or Darrell Green was probably the fastest man ever to play in pads. Deion was well before his time. His athletcism are more eqivalent to players of today rather than the early 90's.

Newman was ran down by Evans, who by the way ran a 4.17 at Wisconsin, but he said he was gassed from not being conditioned and had a bad knee and foot. It would of been a toss up if everyone was healthy. Dont forget about the player from the Falcons who ran on the USA Olympic track team. His name is escaping me now, I want to say Allen Rossuem but Im not for sure.

 

[BuckyG]

They ran the 100 meters, too. Green's PR was 10.08, and Dickey's was 10.11.

Here's the list of everyone who had ever run faster than Terence Newman's 10.20 as of Dec. 31, 2007 --

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/jeube/RM100m.htm

There aren't many guys on that list who ever played in the NFL.

Here's the all-time list for the NFL (unless I'm missing any former NFL players on that list) --

9.95 Jimmy Hines
10.06 Bob Hayes
10.06 Ron Brown
10.07 Alvis Whitted
10.08 Darrell Green
10.09 Sam Graddy
10.10 Willie Gault
10.11 Curtis Dickey
10.14 James Trapp
10.16 James Jett
10.17 Michael Bates
10.17 Sultan McCullough
10.18 Michael Bennett
10.18 Samie Parker
10.20 Terence Newman

Trindon Holliday (10.02) a running back and kick returner for LSU, would join the list if he ever makes it to the NFL. But at 5-foot-5, 159 pounds, I'm guessing he'll do what Xavier Carter did and give up football and pursue professional track.

Didn't Tony Simmons (Patriots WR) run in the 10.2 range at Wisconsin?

 

[AdamJT13]

Dont forget about the player from the Falcons who ran on the USA Olympic track team. His name is escaping me now, I want to say Allen Rossuem but Im not for sure.

Allen Rossum never ran on the Olympic track team. His PR in the 60 meters was 6.68, a little slower than Newman's 6.62.