At 46 years old, Tom Brady, considered the best player in NFL history, ran the 40-yard dash test the fastest this Thursday. than when I was 22 years old.
Brady, who retired in February 2023, underwent one of the main tests of the NFL Combine, a platform in which American football athletes college students show their skills to NFL talent scouts, with the hope of being selected for one of the 32 teams in the Draft that the league organizes each year.
“I’m working out, let’s take some pictures and videos and maybe, just maybe we’ll try the 40-yard dash,” Brady said. in a video he posted on his social media in which he drives to an exercise he organized to test himself.
The former quarterback, who won six championship rings with the New England Patriots and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, recreated the participation he had as a rookie in said test in 2000, when he recorded 5 seconds and 28 hundredths, one of the times slowest in history, which he surpassed this Tuesday by stopping the timer at 5.12.
The record for the fastest speed in the 40-yard dash is 4 seconds and 22 hundredths set by the receiver of the champions Kansas City Chiefs, John Ross, and dates back to 2017.
In the video, in which Brady is cheered on by some friends and his personal trainer, the 15-time Pro Bowl selection wore black sportswear and white sneakers.
Upon finishing and seeing that he surpassed the time he recorded 24 years ago, he challenged himself to do it again after he turns 47.
“We did it and next year we will do it faster,” he said.
Tom Brady was never known for his speed. At the NFL Combine 24 years ago he was not one of the most desired prospects in the league.
He was selected 199th in the sixth round by the New England Patriots as a backup quarterback, something that changed since his second year in the NFL.when he triumphed in the first of the seven Super Bowls he won, which have him as a future member of the Hall of Fame.
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