Okay, so I was kicking back the other day, watching some football highlights, you know how it is. And Jaylen Waddle just bursts off the screen. Seriously, the guy moves differently. It got me thinking, man, how fast is he really? Like, what did he run back when they timed him?
So, naturally, I went down the rabbit hole. Fired up my computer, opened a browser. My first thought was just punching in “jaylen waddle 40 time” and seeing what popped up. Simple enough, right?
Well, it wasn’t quite that easy. You get a bunch of results immediately, sure. Lots of sports sites, fan forums, draft analysis pages. But the numbers weren’t all the same. That’s the first thing I noticed.
I started clicking around. Read a few articles. Turns out, Waddle didn’t actually run the 40-yard dash at the official NFL Combine back before the draft. Remember he had that ankle injury his last year at Alabama? Yeah, that messed up his pre-draft workout circuit a bit.
So, no official Combine time. That explains some of the confusion. Then I started seeing mentions of his Alabama Pro Day. This is where things got interesting. Some sources mentioned a time from there. I saw the number 4.37 seconds pop up a few times, attributed to his Pro Day. But then other articles kinda questioned if he even ran the 40 there, or if that number was official or just reported.
Digging a bit deeper, I found more chatter. Lots of speculation. You see these crazy fast unofficial times thrown around too. I saw some people mentioning times like 4.27 seconds, but those usually came with a big asterisk, like “hand-timed” or “rumored.” It’s hard to know what to believe with those.
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No official NFL Combine time due to injury.
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Some reports mention a 4.37 from his Alabama Pro Day, but it’s a bit murky if that’s fully verified or universally accepted.
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Lots of unofficial, super-fast times (like 4.2s) floating around, but you gotta take those with a grain of salt.
Honestly, after poking around for a while, you realize there isn’t one single, universally agreed-upon, official 40 time for Waddle like you have for some other guys. The consensus seems to be he’s extremely fast, definitely in the low 4.3s or even faster, but pinning down an exact, verified number recorded in a standard setting is tricky.
At the end of the day, though? Doesn’t really change what you see on Sundays. You don’t need a stopwatch number to know Jaylen Waddle plays football at a different speed. My little search just confirmed what my eyes were telling me. The dude is pure electricity on the field.
