Wendall Williams: The (Probably) Fastest Man in the NFL Draft

April 9, 2016   ·   Ty Schalter   ·   Jump to comments

They say a lie can run around the world before the truth can put on its pants. Wendall Williams isn't quite that fast, but he just might be the truth.
The University of the Cumberlands wide receiver's regional combine performance sent shock waves through the NFL-watching world. His unofficial 40-yard dash time of 4.19 seconds, a too-good-to-be-true mark that sent #DraftTwitter into a frenzy, would be a scouting-combine record.
The week before, hundreds of the most renowned college athletes in the country, prepared by dedicated training facilities charging well into five figures, failed to collect the $1 million bounty on the 40-yard-dash record. Williams forked over just $150 for the privilege of lining up and running in Winter Park, Minnesota, and somehow that was enough: An unknown prospect from an NAIA school "nestled in the foothills of Daniel Boone country" had blown the doors off the combine-prep industry—not to mention the NFL scouting industry.
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