Charlie,
My son is a LB/DE who is going to be a senior next year and is trying to play football after high school…hopefully on a scholarship.
He is a good football player…but his 40 time is just not where it should be for the amount of time that he trains at it. He ran at a invitational underclassman combine a couple of weeks ago and 5.0 40 was his best time. He needs to shave some tens off of it in order to be looked at.
He has worked on his takeoff quite a bit and looks like he is shot out of a cannon there…but towards the end of his 40 he seems to “float” a little bit instead of finishing the run off strong. He runs at the same speed from the halfway point all the way through the end instead of accellerating.