Fun 'fact' - unscientific Jabrill 100m dash

Submitted by SpinachAssassin on

Peppers, in typical Peppers fashion, does not have a switch to go less than 100%. So I tried some unscientific timing to see what his runback clocked out to for that busted 2pt conversion.

- Picked up the ball at the 12.5 yard line, so 87.5 yards to run
- Three 'timings' of mine averaged to 8.76 seconds for those 87.5 yards

Equivalent 100m dash was 10.94 seconds. In pads. At the end of a game. Where he played 70+ snaps (per ESPN).

I'm looking forward to another seven games with him in the Maize and Blue!

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Granite

October 30th, 2016 at 12:19 PM ^

so your estimate isn't that far off:

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2014/06/watch_jabrill_peppers…

"Jabrill Peppers isn't just a prep football star, he's also quite a track athlete as well.

Though unlike most runners, when Peppers -- Michigan's star incoming freshman cornerback -- is on the track, he appears to be competing only against himself.
 
That was evidenced Saturday when Peppers claimed another New Jersey Non-Public A state track title in the 100-meter dash.
 
He ran a time of 10.52 seconds, beating the next closest runner -- Alabama five-star corner commit Minkah Fitzpatrick -- by nearly half a second.
 
The time easily won him another state championship, but it wasn't his personal best. He was actually one one-hundreth of a second behind his record-breaking time set a year ago.
 
Peppers, who will arrive at Michigan as a true freshman later this summer, also won another state title in the 200-meter dash, running a time of 21.98."

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VoiceOReason

October 30th, 2016 at 1:35 PM ^

Thank you for sharing, it's fun. Another good comparison would be to look at times for the last 80m (=87.5 yards) of 100m races. Then both the runners and Peppers would have a head start but probably still be accelerating. 

Only problem is I'm not sure how to easily estimate where the last 80m begins (i.e. when the runner has run 20m). 

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bluinohio

October 30th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^

Uh, yeah, all the threads are stupid. I can't believe you guys actually have fun with this stuff. We're part of the team, don't you know? We should all be mad or something... Herp a derp...
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