The speedy Washington receiver ran the 40-yard dash in 4.22 seconds at Lucas Oil Stadium, breaking the event record previously held by the former Titans running back.
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Ross was expected to post a fast time in the 40, but setting a record opened some eyes and will likely help Ross in the 2017 National Football League draft.
Adidas had offered an island to the any prospect that broke Johnson’s 2008 record while wearing the company’s 2017 Adizero 5-Star 40 cleats, but Ross only had one pair of cleats in mind for his historic afternoon. He clocked a 4.51 40-yard dash, even at 251 pounds, and busted out 22 reps on the bench press.
“I was gifted with speed”, Ross said earlier this week, “so I just use it best as I can”. “I just had to sit back and relax and think about what I really want”. With front seven players going through workouts and drills, it means the best athletes on the planet get to show off their abilities.This is as deep a class for front seven players as I can remember and lots of them are outstanding athletes. “I’m good. I just have to think”.
His record 4.22 40-yard dash time will guarantee that he goes somewhere in the top-10 of the NFL Draft.
With a first-round contract, he could probably at some point afford a nice vacation – to the island of his choice.
Pass rusher Ryan Anderson could only say that there was quite a logjam of prospects at the hospital, so much so that he, himself, missed a scheduled interview with the Miami Dolphins on Friday night.
I’m not sure a yelling-incident in a hospital would keep the Cardinals or any other team from drafting Foster.
‘Talk to Tim [Williams],’ said Foster, referencing his Alabama teammate who would have been in the same group for medical evaluations.
Sports Illustrated reporter Robert Klemko said on Twitter the 22-year-old player pulled the ‘do you know who I am?’ card. He already had microfracture surgery on one knee, tore the ACL in the other and now has a labrum tear that is schedule to be surgically repaired March 14. None of these details counts as a new development from Saturday’s action, because Ross showed time and again during his days at Washington how unsafe of a playmaker he can be. Today, he cramped up and couldn’t finish. The NFL told him to go home.
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Ross ran fast at Washington. “There’s no doubting the speed or the talent”.
