By SuperWest Sports Staff
February 28, 2024
The 2025 NFL Combine runs from February 27 through March 2, and we’ll have you covered with both up-to-date and historical coverage.
Here’s a look at previous SuperWest 40-yard dash results. You’ll also find the historical vertical jump marks here.
The NFL Combine’s 40-yard dash is a sprint designed to evaluate the speed and acceleration of football players by scouts for the Draft.
Traditionally, a player’s recorded time would only impact his prospects at the “skill” positions, but these days a fast time is telling for almost every position on the field.
Of course, the 40 is not an official race in track and field athletics. So why that distance and not a 50 or 100?
According to Michael MacCambridge in America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation, the origin of timing football players for 40 yards comes from the average distance of a punt and the time it takes to reach that distance, as determined by Paul Brown in the mid-1940s.
Punts average around 40 yards in distance from the line of scrimmage, and the hangtime (or time of flight) averages approximately 4.5 seconds.
Theoretically, then, if a player can run 40 yards in 4.5 seconds, he will be able to leave the line of scrimmage when a punt is kicked and reach the point where the ball comes down as it arrives.
Below we’ve compiled the 40-yard-dash time for every SuperWest player that has run it at the NFL Combine since 2000, along with their position, school, and the year they participated, in a searchable, sortable table. Mountain West and BYU results will be added in the coming days.
Since the Combine wasn’t held in 2021 due to the pandemic, we’ve included the team Pr0-Day drill results for that year instead.
Washington’s John Ross recorded the fastest 40-yard-dash time among former SuperWest players and owns the all-time NFL Combine mark.