Darren McFadden’s Insane 40-yard Dash: Did He Run a 4.27 or a 4.33?
College Football, NFL, Video February 25th. 2008, 10:43amSports Wrap: 4.27
NFL Network: 4.33
Dallas Morning News: 4.27
USA Today: 4.33
Fanhouse: 4.27
Hashmarks: 4.33
Answer: It matters not – remember how Eric Dickerson and Tony Dorsett were both caught from behind by speedy Darrell Green? Not happening to Run DMAC.
55 Responses to “Darren McFadden’s Insane 40-yard Dash: Did He Run a 4.27 or a 4.33?”
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February 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am
4.27 was the unofficial time. 4.33 is the adjusted one. still…thats crazy fast.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:46 am
How about we say 4.3 and go grab some beers?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:49 am
yeah, the title was more of a joke than anything … but adjusted for what?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I heard this rumor on the intertubes, “Cowboys are willing to trade their two first rounders and Barber for Miami’s 1-1, so the Cowboys can draft McFadden”. I don’t know how much truth there is behind it, but J. Jones is a HUGE Arkansas booster.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Was that the time it took him to hit someone with a beer bottle and then run away?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
If Jones trades Barber he is a moron.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Inflation? Comfort?
February 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
People are arguing over SIX HUNDRETHS OF A SECOND? [/TMQ]
February 25th, 2008 at 10:53 am
@cbh: I agree. The trade just has stupid written all over it. I don’t really think it will happen. Then again, it is Jerry Jones we are talking about here.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
If he said most of what he says in SIX HUNDRETHS OF THE WORDS, he’d be much more likable
February 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am
I’m not buying DMac. I think AP was the exception, not the rule. I can name many can’t miss RB’s who turned out to be shit. He is a long strider, not good for the NFL. He also never carried a full load in college, he split time with Felix. It would be a mistake to take him top 5, let along trade picks/players to take him that high.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Am I the only one still not completely sold on this guy? He is very fast, but speed isn’t always everything in the NFL. Plus, with the way the NFL has been cracking down on guys, I wonder if he can stay out of trouble once he starts making the big money.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Curtis Enis is going to be a stud.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
@CoRM: The time was a adjusted because of the subprime mess. The five year ARM kicked in.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
CRM, I can name 5 more PSU RB’s that are going to be studs.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I’ll see your Enis and raise you a Ki-Jana Carter
February 25th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Blair Thomas
February 25th, 2008 at 11:03 am
D mac will be making Big macs in ten years. You guys want to talk about a future all pro from this draft, look at Howies boy. Kid is a beast
February 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I’ll raise all of you one Rashamm Saalam.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Too bad he can’t run away from the cadre of baby mamas soon to be on his ass.
I know people aren’t sold on him, but when you beast the SEC while splitting time with another back, that’s gotta count for something.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:09 am
I still take exception to people calling Ki-Jana a bust. He tore his ACL before he played in any regular season games. This is 12 years ago, when it wasn’t a sure thing that people would come back from that.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:09 am
D-Mac didn’t really split time with Felix while at Arkansas, It was more of a 2:1 ratio on the carries. That being said I think it benefits him more in the NFL since it means that he wasn’t hit as much in college as he potentially could have been. I’m also an Arkansas homer so D-Mac is a can’t miss.
They have been talking about that J. Jones deal down here for about the past year. I still don’t see it happening, but with Jones you never can tell.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Similiar situation with Illinois RB Rashard Mendenhall….John Clayton said on SC last night that he ran 4.37, yet the NFL Network scroll said 4.45 along with fflivewire.com, which drew its numbers straight from NFL.com.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
it got adjusted because it was wind aided. those domes can get damn drafty.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am
It’s a shame Ki Jana’s career was messed up but when you are taken in the first round and you don’t amount to anything you’re a bust, no matter what the cirumstances were.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:14 am
OK, so his knee was a bust…
February 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Steve Entman’s career was cut short by injuries, according to your criteria for Ki Jane he wasn’t a bust either.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am
robert edwards takes offense to that statement, crm
February 25th, 2008 at 11:17 am
At least Robert Edwards had a chance to prove he could be successful in the league (although I’m sure that doesn’t mean much to him now).
February 25th, 2008 at 11:18 am
All I’m saying, cbh, is that it is unfair to put Ki Jana in the same box as Enis and Blair Thomas. Different circumstances.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Also, I think its pretty commendable that a guy whose game was predicated on explosiveness kept working to come back and play when he was already rich and had that explosiveness taken away from him.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Deion Sanders clocked him at 4.71.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Arkbadger – Presumably, you are in Arkansas. What’s the deal with McFadden off the field? Overrated stories, or legit issues/concerns?
February 25th, 2008 at 11:29 am
If you scroll to the bottom of this link, it looks like they adjust the times to account for the surface they’re running on. http://www.kffl.com/player/6927/nfl/news
Either way, McFadden is pretty fast.
Can anyone see Parcells raising the price tag on that #1 pick just to mess with Jones, just because he can?
February 25th, 2008 at 11:34 am
“Not happening to Run DMAC”
1:25 in…too bad Ike hurt his knee a month ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhItkOUYa5c
February 25th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Similarly, those would be my times if anyone such as Bar Refaeli, Jessica Alba, et. al. would let me have “sexy time” with them.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
McFadden fumbles to much to be a can’t miss NFL RB. He’s fast but i don’t see how you can pick him at number 1 considering the fact that in most cases RB’s picked high were busts (i’m looking at you Cedric Benson…) and AP was the exception. I don’t see Jones trading 2 first-rounds and Barber for the number 1, but i see him trading the 2 first-rounds for the number 1 so he can take McFadden….
February 25th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I think a lot of the D-Mac stories are over-hyped just based solely on the fact that he was a big name guy making a few dumb moves. And this may be my homerisms again, but he really isn’t that bad of a bad guy. I’ve been known to troll around the bars quite often and didn’t see him out once. The only concern that I see for D-Mac off the field is his love for the portly women, which I have personally seen.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Hey, Carl Lewis ran fast and he tried out for football.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
If he can somehow stay healthy, my boy Jonathan Stewart will be judged by history as the best RB to come out of this draft.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
i think we can agree, every team without LT or Purple Jesus would take any of these 3 backs over what they have now.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I also live here in the proximity of the U of A. I don’t think DMac is any worse, and he may actually be better, than anyone else that grows up like he did. He grew up in one of the toughest parts of the country in LR and he made it out. Saying that he still needs to be smarter then to get in a bar fight a few months before the draft ( and that being said, he wasn’t arrested but he was right in the middle of that fight, no matter what was portrayed in the media ).
I hope from an Arkansas/DMac fan standpoint, that he gets drafted by a team far far away. Dallas is still pretty close to LR and the further he can be away from all of that the better. Hoping for Oakland…
Everything said, anyone who thinks he isn’t a physical beast is a fool. The guy will lower his head, to the point of knocking himself out ( check the Alabama game tape ), and run over LB’s and DB’s. Not to mention he also has that blazing speed to burn anyone he gets to the corner against.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
It takes D Mac 4.27 seconds to knock up a chick apparently. 4.33 if you adjust for the surface that he bangs her on.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
dirty…is that hand-timed or electronic?
February 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Darrell Green and his 4.125 40 time scoff at the notion he couldn’t catch D Mac
February 25th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
If a cornerback from a Big Ten team could catch him from behind I’m guessing there are a few guys in the NFL who would do the same
February 25th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
yea, once you leave the SEC, you lose the mythical SEC speed.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
My favorite part about all the RB busts from the draft:
75% of them went to the Bears.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Butters, I am guessing you are refering to the Capital One Bowl from last year when he was not at full speed.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Dmac shreds the best conference in college football for 2 straight seasons and now people are banging on him? The knocks on him seem weak and his accomplishments on the field are more impressive than his freakish athletic skills.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Well according to updated projected mock drafts, the first 5 teams are not in need a RB unless Jerry Jones does something really stupid and trades Marion Barber for the #1 pick. Most of the mock drafts have him@ #6 to my NY JETS.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Butters:
DMac nearly broke his ankle in the SECCG. He is a warrior though and he played in the bowl game anyway. I am gonna say he was about 85% that day. No way when healthy would that guy have come within 5 yards of him.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I’m aware of the injury…just enjoy that for once in a college football discussion I can give a “Scoreboard” from the Big Ten side of things (that video is also interesting to see Arkansas’ five man defensive line that confused the hell out of the Badgers)
February 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
the bottom line is his stock suffered because hes been around so long. when youre in the spotlight for that long, people pick you apart (see brady quinn, leinart, rodgers) and when youre a flash in the pan (jamarcus russell, akili smith, etc.) theres less body of work to analyze.
this only applies to skill position players, LB/linemen are a different story.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Darren McFadden, along with being lightning fast, is also great at the fundamentals. He blocks well, he doesn’t take plays off, doesn’t get mad when he isn’t getting the ball, etc. He is the real deal.