Jadeveon Clowney Flies in the 40-Yard Dash; Want to See Him Race Johnny Manziel and De'Anthony Thomas?

It finally came time for one of the most anticipated 40-yard dashes of the NFL Combine Monday morning. Yes, sports fans, it was time for defensive lineman Jadeveon Clowney to step up to the line. After hearing about how fast he was going to run it was time for his actions to match his words.

So--did they?

Yes.

Clowney's unofficial time in his first run was a 4.47 seconds and 4.48 in his second. Over the weekend there was talk that he was hitting 4.46 in his work outs so these times were right in line with the rumors.

 

The NFL has yet to say his official time so to put his 40 in to perspective let's take advantage of modern technology and see how he would do against Johnny Manziel:

 

 

Manziel had an official time of 4.68. The gap that Clowney has could easily account for .1 of a second; maybe .15, but I don't know about .21 though. To get a better picture check out Clowney vs. De'Anthony Thomas:

 

Thomas had an official time of 4.50. Clowney was right on his heels so maybe a 4.55 perhaps? There are probably going to be plenty of folks that are going to criticize him for not running in the 4.4 range like he said, but let's be real here folks. We have a 260+ pound man that has run a 4.5ish 40-yard dash.

That's pretty freaking awesome.

[GIFs from Bleacher Report]

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