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uconnphil2016 said:
I had read (can't remember where so not very useful) that Newsome's 40 time was actually abnormally slow (4.6) especially considering his size, but that he's just incredibly shifty and accelerates quickly. Not sure if that's accurate or not, but just from watching him it's apparent that he doesn't have top level speed when he's out in open field. That's fine though, because he's obviously performing pretty darn well with the skill set he's got.
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I'm not being critical. Not everyone has breakaway speed. Lots of great backs get caught on long runs. Just pointing out he doesn't have all world speed.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
I had read (can't remember where so not very useful) that Newsome's 40 time was actually abnormally slow (4.6) especially considering his size, but that he's just incredibly shifty and accelerates quickly. Not sure if that's accurate or not, but just from watching him it's apparent that he doesn't have top level speed when he's out in open field. That's fine though, because he's obviously performing pretty darn well with the skill set he's got.
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He was clocked at 4.7 when he was in 8th grade, I believe it was on an ESPN recruiting site. That was the year he played in the Eastbay Youth All-American game and returned a KO for a touchdown. He played with some very good college players including Sony Michel and Jeb Blazevich of Georgia, Christian McCaffery Of Stanford and Manny Johnson currently of the Dallas Cowboys, to name a few.



Not many players in all of college football have all-world speed, it's a rare trait. To be honest, sprinters speed (straight line speed) doesn't necessarily translate to the football field unless you're running in a straight sprint. There have been a number of world-class sprinters who attempted to make it in the NFL and failed. He may not have that 5th gear, but he has other traits that can't be taught. He's a special talent with great vision, the ability to excelerate through contact, and doesn't lose speed in and out of cuts. Other then Terry Caulley, who was clocked at 4.29 while at UConn, there haven't been many RBs with world class speed on the roster. If you compare Newsome to all the RBs in the 2015 NFL Combine, he's as fast or faster then most, including Melvin Gordon, who was considered the top Arab in the draft.
 
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kris1 said:
He was clocked at 4.7 when he was in 8th grade, I believe it was on an ESPN recruiting site. That was the year he played in the Eastbay Youth All-American game and returned a KO for a touchdown. He was on the same team a Georgia players, Sony Michel and Jeb Blazevich.
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Kinda cool to see an 8th Grade Christian McCaffrey (Stanford - Top 5 Heisman odds) too...
 
huskymedic said:
Kinda cool to see an 8th Grade Christian McCaffrey (Stanford - Top 5 Heisman odds) too...
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McCaffery actually beat Newsome on that first catch in the video....Newsome was fast enough to run him down.
 
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We like to romantacize the past. I believe Donald Brown was probably our fastest RB, but I distinctly remember him being run down from behind against Virginia and against Buffalo. So someone said he would have outran the ECU DBs in another thread, but in the international Bowl against Buffalo, the DB came back from much further behind and I remember the announcers talking about he just got walked .
 
huskymedic said:
LOL - #15 Josh Thomas is now a CB for Indy.
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Josh Thomas ran a 4.43 at his pro day and a 4.63 at the combine in 2011.
Donald Brown ran a 4.46 at UConn and a 4.51 at the combine.
 
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huskymedic said:
LOL - #15 Josh Thomas is now a CB for Indy.
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Why do you LOL? I can't remember the thread, but someone in another thread mentioned how Arkeel needed a stiff arm after getting caught from behind and how DB or Todman would have not gotten caught. We don't know if the guy who caught Arkeel will play in the NFL or how fast his 40 is. I was pointing how we sometimes make the past somehow greater than it was. Remember this 90 yd run, which is much longer than DBs btw. Not a knock on DB, just pointing out that he too got chased down once or twice.
 
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noeynox said:
Why do you LOL? I can't remember the thread, but someone in another thread mentioned how Arkeel needed a stiff arm after getting caught from behind and how DB or Todman would have not gotten caught. We don't know if the guy who caught Arkeel will play in the NFL or how fast his 40 is. I was pointing how we sometimes make the past somehow greater than it was. Remember this 90 yd run, which is much longer than DBs btw. Not a knock on DB, just pointing out that he too got chased down once or twice.
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I was laughing because the guy that caught Donald ended up in the NFL as well... Not mocking your post.
 
People used to say the same kinds of things about Donald... That he didn't have "another gear" and didn't have break away speed. Arkeel just had the third longest run from scrimmage in the history of UConn football and the second to Terry Caulley in the FBS/I-A era. He's got breakaway speed. If he didn't that run would have been a lot shorter.
 
noeynox said:
We like to romantacize the past. I believe Donald Brown was probably our fastest RB, but I distinctly remember him being run down from behind against Virginia and against Buffalo. So someone said he would have outran the ECU DBs in another thread, but in the international Bowl against Buffalo, the DB came back from much further behind and I remember the announcers talking about he just got walked .
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DB was caught from behind against Wake Forrest in the Meineke Bowl too.
 
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