As long as we are comparing times of FB RB's who are also sprinters, I thought I would mention the running styles of Jawhar Jordan and Sean Tucker. I believe both are going to be great backs. It's great that we have these two SU backs to compare with such fast 40 times. Tucker 4.28, Jordan 4.37. Dino get's 'em. Greatest coach and recruiter SU has had.
Both are football and track athletes. Jordan, however, has had more experience as a running back than Tucker and that makes a difference. At the moment I give the best RB to Jordan, he has both speed and moves. He takes the ball from the QB gets out of the backfield quickly looks like he's trapped, jukes the defender and is gone. His stride length, when you look at him quickly, makes him look like he has got to go to get further away or they're going to catch him then a quick transition happens and the burners go on and take him beyond the defenders and what he needs to score.
Go back and look at Jordans tape and compare it to Tuckers. Until they create an event to measure both elite speed and elusiveness in the open field we'll have to be satisfied with elite straight line speed which to me gives the measure that a RB recruit is going to leave the jock strap of a corner/LB 10 feet in the air if he is elusive, has great peripheral vision, knows how to utilize a stutter step and or juke a defender to get into the secondary and beyond. Jordan has these attributes honed to a finer edge than Tucker at the moment IMHO.
def: for those who haven't heard the term. A
juke is a move in most forms of American
football used to evade a tackler by deception, and thus without need of a stiff arm. It can also be called sidestepping. A typical
juke involves a ball-carrier faking as if he will run one way, then planting his foot and running the opposite
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