This is true but I always wonder if there isn't a little manipulation going on. Like if you're the Cowboys, you're telling people he ran a 4.58 just praying he falls. If you like Egbuka or a different WR more you're going to claim to have seen a 4.46 forty. And yep, no electronic timer to tell us like at the combine.
I guess if I was that interested in a player, I'd have my own stopwatch on them and not rely on a rival to be telling me the truth.
Well of course you'll have your own stop watch. If others tell you the answer to a math problem is 45 and you got 36, you'll start to question if you're right.
I don't agree.
If I was a team that wanted to draft him I would have said his speed was 4.57 too. Not low enough to look like sandbagging but enough that teams obsessed with 40s might rethink it.
It's the time of year when teams lie about players to try to manipulate the draft.
Jeanty isn't one of them, not sure about the rest.
I've already pegged Williams as the third down guy. Rookies often suck at it. It takes some coaching but anyone with a little effort and size can learn.
I'd still roll the dice on him in the 3rd as long as his work ethic off the field checks out, but you can't consider him at all in the first 2 rounds.
Yeah he was already dropping to that third round range anyway in my opinion. His testing doesn't worry me. It's the work ethic and attitude that I'm concerned about. He has legit physical tools. But workout numbers are often a reflection of how a guy prepares for that workout. And if those numbers are poor I question a guys work ethic.
Love to see it.
