Who ran a 4.24?

Taylor Mays unofficial 1st run.

Sweet baby jesus.

He just vaulted himself ahead of Earl Thomas and into the top 10.

If Berry is gone, I would not complain if we took him.

Berry with a 43" vertical. He didn't even look like he was trying either.

It's good to have options.

Anyone arguing to take Okung needs to rip out their eyes.

Cool, so Mays can quickly take bad angles to cover people.

I wouldn't put too much into his 40 time.

Everyone knew that Mays was going to run around a 4.3 40. It's his ball skills, or lack thereof, that will still have teams questioning his ability to play at the next level effectively as a safety.

The only team that would vault Mays into the top 10 at this point is the Raiders, and Bruce Campbell running an official 4.85 40 is more impressive than Mays running a 4.24.

Why is that?

Wait - people are surprised that Mays ran a great 40? This has been expected for about 2 years now.

I don't think anyone has ever knocked his athleticism - it's his production that the critics jump on.

Does Pioli value the safety position that high?

I don't know. Leaning no.

Except for when Mays played in the senior bowl, he was actually used in a scheme that put him in position to make plays and it was against great talent and he rocked that game.

No one.

Jacoby Ford of Clemson was the fastest guy at the combine with a 4.28. Trindon Holliday of LSU was second fastest with a 4.34.

Taylor Mays ran an official 4.43.

Whats funny is when you play Taylor Mays run side by side with Jacoby Ford they are right together... and Ford's "official" time was 4.28

There is no real single official time. From an article a week ago:

But it is important to keep the term "official" in context because there is no such thing as a single "official" time at the NFL Combine.

Here is what happens to get the 40 times at the Combine:

--Those who participate in the 40 actually run twice, and on each run they are timed by two hand-held stopwatches and one electronic timer (that is actually initiated by hand on the player's first movement).

--Combine data put together for NFL teams by National Scouting includes all six of those times for each player, but no single official time. Team scouts and coaches have various approaches for getting the 40 time they use from those six timings. Some use averages. Some throw out slowest and fastest and then average.


I'd love to see the breakdown of the individual hand times and electronic time.