So Johnson borrowed a pair of spikes from East Carolina’s James Pinkney — then proceeded to run a blistering 4.32 in the 40.In hindsight, the numbers that Watt put up at the Combine were a window into his dominant Defensive Player of the Year future. Perhaps that's obvious, but there's something to be said for going to school in the country with an African name that many people thought was fodder for humor ... then suddenly having the same name as one of the coolest guys in our 8 year-old world. I'm lucky enough that I can roll out of bed and rattle off on something for 45 minutes. But Prime Time didn’t stop running once he hit the finish line; Sanders ran out of the building to a limousine waiting to take him to the airport.With his draft stock holding strong near the top of the class, Johnson planned on kicking back and watching the festivities. Imagine being so confident in yourself, as a man, that you could have so much ripped from you in a single moment, yet grow and become someone who seems just as happy without it. Bo Jackson. Mamula never looked as good in pads as he did in shorts.In hindsight, the most impressive thing the “Incredible Bulk” did was pass his steroid drug screening during the Combine. He didn’t bring any track shoes.
Seriously, who turns down the NFL as the No. i am sixteen years old and i can bench press 250 lbs. The two-sport super talented athlete weighed in at 6'1" and 230 pounds. It's like all sports, put together, was The Eliminator, and Bo Jackson was the greatest American Gladiator we've ever seen.Alright, I just caught this image of Bo Jackson announcing his retirement from baseball and football in 1989, explaining that "American Gladiators looks awesome, I'm gonna go do that." Defensive back Deion Sanders was clocked at 4.2 in 1989.
But having numbers like "4.12" help people our age, because there's no way we can come up with the words to explain how mind-blowing he was. This was a chopper to the right side. They're both sporting endeavors that require extraordinary skill, yes, but that's about where it ends. At 304 pounds, Mandarich ran a 4.65 in the 40, exploded for a 30” vertical and 10’3” broad jump, and ripped off 39 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press.The ultimate showman (and show-boater), Deion showed up fashionably late (and probably fashionably loud) to the Combine, then ran his 40-yard dash only once — in a time between 4.19 and 4.29, depending on whose hand-timed stop watch you trust. NFL scouting combine: Bo Jackson, J.J. Watt among most head-turning performances. Statistically speaking, he was middle-of-the-road his first two seasons, but then he really began to pick it up.
At 6’5”, 290 pounds with 11 1/8” hands and 34” arms, Watt ran a 4.84 in the 40, soared for a 37” vertical and 10’ broad jump, and threw up a long-armed 34 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press.One of the main reasons teams remain skeptical of off-the-charts Combine stats, Gholston was the classic “look like Tarzan, play like Jane.” In shorts and a muscle shirt, Gholston ran a 4.67 in the 40, had 37 reps on the bench and lifted off for a 35.5” vertical and 10.5” broad jump.College Football Rankings: NCAAF Top 25 (After Week 3),NFL Predictions: Week 2 Picks for Every Game,March Madness: 2020 Dates for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament,Michigan State Basketball Schedule 2019-20,Saint Mary's Basketball: Gaels Team Preview and Season Prediction 2019-20,Xavier Basketball: Musketeers Team Preview and Season Prediction 2019-20,How to Watch and Live Stream NASCAR Online (some for free),75 Funny Fantasy NASCAR Team Names for 2020,opinions on the value of the “Underwear Olympics” are mixed,The NFL Combine: A Complete Waste of My Time,18 Worst NFL Combine Busts of the First Round. But back to the dumbell issue, with that kind of bench press you bring the weight further back almost like a butterfly workout. Like Hall of Fame hitter/fighter pilot Ted Williams, or inventor/Founding Father/100 other things Ben Franklin. I didn't know you could do that, and I remember reasoning that they just let him do it because he was Bo Jackson.For a while -- until I was 6 or 7, I think -- that's all I understood of Bo Jackson: that he was a baseball player. As incredible as he was, nothing has happened as either of us has gotten older to make me think any less of him. ".Now, to be honest, I haven't really kept up with Bo Jackson's doings post-retirement. I don't know him, but the real things we know are worthy of salute.That really is something, because he moved on more gracefully than a lot of us have, myself included. In a football uniform. But that's a matter of debate too, since 40-yard dashes were timed by hand back then.Four-hundred pounds and 4.12 seconds. Herschel Walker and Bo Jackson were inhuman athletes. He had to develop those independently. Jackson was on the verge of exploding, and Walker was curiously inefficient some seasons, insanely productive other seasons That is Bo's most underrated feat: he moved on.The other thing that impresses me about Bo that gets forgotten is the work he put in to improve his speech and overcome his stuttering problem.
But once the fireworks started, Megatron’s competitive juices started flowing and he decided he wanted to run after all. The star of the 1986 NFL combine was Bo Jackson. Joe Posnanski.But here's why that stuff doesn't matter quite as much -- that Bo synthesized all that ability into on-field production is possibly the most impressive part of all this. I know he went back and earned his degree at Auburn to fulfill a promise to his late mother, and I know he goes out in the woods with a pistol and hunts bears. And then one day I rip open a pack of football stickers ... and there's Bo Jackson. To put that into perspective, he had a higher vertical leap than Michael Jordan or LeBron James.