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Jeff Legwold
INDIANAPOLIS — It is not typically a participant drops a blistering 40-yard sprint time on the NFL scouting mix and it nonetheless is not as quick as he anticipated.
However that was the case Saturday for Texas vast receiver Isaiah Bond.
Bond ran an formally timed 4.39 seconds within the 40 (his two runs had been unofficially timed and initially proven to the gang inside Lucas Oil Stadium as 4.40 and 4.41). A top quality run, for positive, however simply shy of what Bond predicted Friday, when he informed reporters right here that he would break Xavier Worthy’s combine record of 4.21, set final yr.
Worthy, additionally a former Texas vast receiver, was chosen by the Kansas City Chiefs with the twenty eighth choose of the 2024 NFL draft final April.
“I will break the file tomorrow, for positive,” Bond had said Friday. “I anticipate operating 4.20 or presumably, if I am feeling nice, I’d run a 4.1.”
Requested later Friday what separated him from a few of the different receivers on this draft class, Bond added: “What separates me from the remainder of the draft class is the sheer velocity. There’s not a receiver that has the velocity and capabilities that I’ve. It is not simply velocity; I am an entire vast receiver. I’ve wonderful routes. In case you watch the tape, you may see that.”
Bond, who had mentioned his finest 40 time in his coaching main as much as the mix was a 4.23, is the No. 10 vast receiver in Mel Kiper Jr.’s newest Large Board for ESPN.
His teammate at Texas, Matthew Golden, ran an official 4.29 seconds within the 40, the quickest time amongst vast receivers who had been examined Saturday. Tennessee‘s Dont’e Thornton Jr. ran the second-fastest 40 with a 4.30, whereas Florida‘s Chimere Dike‘s and Virginia Tech‘s Jaylin Lane‘s tied for the third-fastest at 4.34.
Bond’s time was tied for ninth-fastest with Iowa State‘s Jaylin Noel. Seven of the ten receiver instances had been run by gamers out of the SEC.
Towards UTSA this previous season, Bond was clocked at quicker than 22 mph. He completed the 2024 season with 34 catches for 540 yards and 5 touchdowns.
