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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.
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Mismanaging the clock.
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