Listening to Nick Bahe go on about how there is no way that Bookie ran a 4.32 at IMG. His argument is that there are only a handful of NFL players that can run that fast.
I don't know why this is so hard to believe. There are roughly 1700 active NFL players during the season (53 + 5 man practice squad x 32 teams). If only 1% of them can run sub 4.4 40s that would be 17 players (haven't researched this but seems plausible). There are over 1 million high school football players. Not all of them are elite athletes like NFL players, but even if 1% of 1% of them ran a sub 4.4 40 that would be 1000. That percentage would likely go up with the elite high school football players, which Bookie obviously is. Add to that the fact that Bookie has run in the low 4.4s (electronically timed) at other camps, and that no one tests at their best every time they test, it is within reason that the 4.32 that Bookie ran is legit.
I don't know why this is so hard to believe. There are roughly 1700 active NFL players during the season (53 + 5 man practice squad x 32 teams). If only 1% of them can run sub 4.4 40s that would be 17 players (haven't researched this but seems plausible). There are over 1 million high school football players. Not all of them are elite athletes like NFL players, but even if 1% of 1% of them ran a sub 4.4 40 that would be 1000. That percentage would likely go up with the elite high school football players, which Bookie obviously is. Add to that the fact that Bookie has run in the low 4.4s (electronically timed) at other camps, and that no one tests at their best every time they test, it is within reason that the 4.32 that Bookie ran is legit.
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