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QB/WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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ysubuck;1517220; said:
I believe the 4.3 40 before I believe the 350 yard drive.
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I wouldn't.

A 6'6" guy with a good swing is going to have some serious club head speed. All you have to do is make contact with modern drivers. I see young guys uncork drives like that all the time any more.

Unfortunately its never me.:(
 
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OSUbuckeye09;1517248; said:
I heard if he was running a hundred on a football field with the speed he generates the last 40 yards would be a 3.1 thats ridiculous. They say top speed he reaches 39 mph... Thats CRAZY!!!
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He didn't run a 3.1 40. You can't just do a linear interpolation, his speed isn't constant over the entire 100 meters (even if it were, a linear interpolation would give you a 3.54 40 - did you remember to convert from meters to yards?); he covers the back end of the 100 meters in less time than the front end. His 40m split at the Olympics was around 4.47. 40 meters is around 43 yards, so we'll just assume a linear interpolation to get the 36.9 meter (40 yard) split time. You've also got to remove the reaction time (0.165), because football players are timed at their first movement, whereas Olympic sprinters are timed at the sound of the gun. Anyway, the 40 yard split is approximately 4 seconds (40*39/36 ~ 43 yards, 43 / 4.305 = 9.98 yards / second, 40 / 9.98 ~ 4 seconds). So yeah, he's very fast. You already knew that, though.

And the top speed of that Olympic run was more like 27 mph (0.82 seconds to cover 10 meters is 12.1 m/s, 1 m/s is 2.2 mph, 12.1*2.2~27).

Considering that this new run was faster than his Olympic run, those numbers would improve, but he's still not running a 3.1 second 40 or hitting 39 mph.
 
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TheIronColonel;1517321; said:
He didn't run a 3.1 40. You can't just do a linear interpolation, his speed isn't constant over the entire 100 meters (even if it were, a linear interpolation would give you a 3.54 40 - did you remember to convert from meters to yards?); he covers the back end of the 100 meters in less time than the front end. His 40m split at the Olympics was around 4.47. 40 meters is around 43 yards, so we'll just assume a linear interpolation to get the 36.9 meter (40 yard) split time. You've also got to remove the reaction time (0.165), because football players are timed at their first movement, whereas Olympic sprinters are timed at the sound of the gun. Anyway, the 40 yard split is approximately 4 seconds (40*39/36 ~ 43 yards, 43 / 4.305 = 9.98 yards / second, 40 / 9.98 ~ 4 seconds). So yeah, he's very fast. You already knew that, though.

And the top speed of that Olympic run was more like 27 mph (0.82 seconds to cover 10 meters is 12.1 m/s, 1 m/s is 2.2 mph, 12.1*2.2~27).

Considering that this new run was faster than his Olympic run, those numbers would improve, but he's still not running a 3.1 second 40 or hitting 39 mph.
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A running debate: How often should QBs carry the football?
Monday, August 17, 2009
Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
Columbus

-- "Take a kid like Pryor," said former Detroit Lions general man ager Matt Millen, now analyzing the col lege game for ESPN and ABC. "He's on the front end of who knows where it's going to be. Hopefully, he'll have a great college career, and let's say he has great success the next three years, and then they're going to try to run some of that with him in the National Football League.

"He'll get his head torn off. The first time they expose him to the run game and he's free game, I'll tell you right now, I would kill him."

The topic was Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor and the Wildcat formation that's creeping into the NFL, the offensive package that shifts a running back into the shotgun formation at quarterback. Taking the idea a step further, the Miami Dolphins drafted West Virginia quarterback Pat White in April with the idea of using him in the formation, utilizing a quarterback with running back skills to make the threat of the pass more real.

What about a player like Pryor, then, a 6-foot-6, 235-pounder who can run and, if his improvement from the spring continues, can throw as well? His skills could dictate another evolution at quarterback, but common sense, and financial sense, might prevent it.

"You can't do it," Millen said. "If you're going to pay him that kind of money and you're going to build everything around him, you have to limit and manage the amount of times he's hit."
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A running debate: How often should QBs carry the football? - Cleveland.com
 
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