Holy Shit, Tyquan Thornton May Have Just Broken The 40 Yard Dash Record At The NFL Combine (UPDATE: Nope, Not Even Close)

Well I hope Chris Olave enjoyed his brief moment as the king of Twitter and John Ross enjoyed being known as something other than a receiver with issues dropping the football and staying on the field because Tyquan Thornton just took them all down with an unofficial 4.21 40 time. I don't understand how I can watch the combine on my personal pocket phone using cellular data hundreds of miles away but we can't get an official time on the 40 instantly in Indianapolis. Yet here we are waiting for this 40 time to be official which in turn makes me unofficial headline looks pussy as fuck. I didn't know who Tyquan Thornton was before tonight but I can guarantee you he will be returning kickoffs AND punts for me in my Madden franchise next year.

Also while everything we know about humans says that all these receivers running crazy 40 times is right in line with all the improvements in technology, training, and evolution, I wouldn't put it past Goodell having these guys running on one of those airport walkways to juice these numbers to get everyone talking NFL during primetime in the first week of March that usually belongs to college hoops. Because if those walkways can make my oversized slow motion ass look normal speed, just think what they can do to some of the best young athletes in the universe.

To be clear, I was talking about the superfreaks running sub-4.3 40s as the athletes but these gifs were too cute not to throw in the blog. Nonetheless I feel like it's only a matter of when not if we see a dude run the 40 somewhere in the 4.teens after tonight. Shit, maybe it'll happen tonight.

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UPDATE: Not even close!

Can Jeff Bezos take some of his money to shoot peoples asses into space to get instant official 40 times now that Amazon has NFL games?