Marcell Shipp twice had yard seasons with the Cardinals, but still couldn't put together enough career yards to crack the chart above. But Singletary is a helpful reminder that a terrible combine day does not necessarily mean a terrible career is to come. Speed Score is correlated with success, but it's not fate. Three backs outside the top class had very solid Speed Scores. They represent three different tiers of runners, so they're good names to keep in mind if your team starts looking for a back late in the draft.
Of the three, it's Akers with the best prospects coming into the combine. He's not going to be a carry bellcow or anything, but he put up solid performance for the Seminoles despite some terrible blocking ahead of him. He's not a bad option late on the second day of the draft; his 40 performance shows some potential burst that hasn't always been seen on the field.
McFarland is more of a Day 3 sort of back; something of a developmental prospect with a history of injuries and some unimpressive recent tape. He does have some splash performances on film, especially against Ohio State in , so some teams are certainly interested. He may have earned himself a Day 2 callup with his combine performance.
Evans' performance might just have been enough to ensure that he's drafted at all. The smallest of the three, Evans is not going to become a great inside runner or a fantastic pass protector at the next level, but he's elusive and has solid hands and kickoff return experience.
That alone would be enough to make teams consider him; a 4. Aside from Barkley, the guys on the top 10 table don't look impressive at all. Some colossal busts there. It's something we've noted before -- the track record of players above is great Barkley, Tomlinson, Chris Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Ricky Williams, Edgerrin James, DeMarco Murray, Deuce McAllister, we could go on , but the track record of players above is basically a big fat zero, with Brandon Jacobs and Kevin Jones the only ones to really contribute.
It's conceivable that some of the very, very top are people who specifically are great at track, and don't have the other skills you'd expect from a professional running back -- in other words, players who have maxed out this one drill at the expense of other skills. Injuries also derailed Keith Marshall and Ben Tate, so maybe you can make a "frame's too small to hold up, even with blazing speed" argument.
I'm on team "random splits happen". It's unlikely all the top group would have busted before Barkley came along, but sometimes, unlikely things do occur. Yeah, there's obviously some self-selection going on here. Usain Bolt would have broken a Speed Score in his prime, and no one's suggesting that he'd be a successful NFL running back; we're assuming that the players running as running backs at the combine are running back-type athletes. The very tippy-top of the list might have a whiff of track stars in running back clothing.
He admittedly was helped by NFL-level offensive lines at Wisconsin against those loaded boxes, so didn't take nearly the hits his inside running would suggest and showed he was pretty effective when used in the passing game on routes out of the backfield.
Edwards-Helaire feels a lot like a Dion Lewis type -- a decent runner, more shifty than fast, who is as much a slot receiver as he is a RB. That's a speed score of But just looking at Speed Score by itself, there are some tighter comparisons:. Close comparisons: Kevin Faulk 4. Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles hip will retire at the end of the season, ending his year career.
Sproles is currently out for the season with a torn right hip flexor. The year-old pint-sized back ran for 66 yards on Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles will miss the rest of the season due to a torn hip flexor.
The veteran back suffered the injury originally in Week 5 but was able to return in Week 9. Sproles missed most of last season due to injury as well, which led him to return for one more Philadelphia Eagles running back Darren Sproles quadriceps got in a full practice on Friday and has been taken off the final injury report for Week 9 against the Bears.
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Red-flag prospects must show they're worth drafting at NFL combine. Johnson put together six straight 1,yard rushing seasons and even eclipsed the storied 2,yard plateau by six yards back in , a season that earned him his "CJ2K" moniker. In , he finished with a career-low 3.
After being cut by the Titans, he spent the season with the Jets and failed to top 1, yards for the first time in his seven-year career. The jury is still out on Kent State product Dri Archer, who posted the top yard dash at last year's combine but only received 10 carries with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a rookie. If Archer never catches on, he would join a long list of sub Five front-runners to post the NFL combine's fastest yard dash.
Other sub Spiller when healthy have all proved to be game-changers. But the list of tailbacks who ran the 40 slower than 4.
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