Olympics long jumper and general athletic freak Marquise Goodwin has been impressing football scouts at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis this week, running a near record 4.27 seconds in the 40-yard-dash, and somehow broad jumping 11-feet.
Goodwin finished tenth in London last summer with a jump of 7.80 meters, but his career best of 8.33 meters, or roughly 27-feet, four-inches, would have been good enough for gold. The Texas University receiver will just have to settle for an NFL contract instead: He’s projected to go somewhere in the third round.
Goodwin’s 4.27 seconds was only 0.03 off the combine record set by Chris Johnson in 2008. Johnson, apparently watching, followed up the run with a tweet that read: “Can’t lie that one scared me.”
But surprisingly, Goodwin’s 11-foot broad jump isn’t the best ever, or even the best of the week. That was turned in by Tennesee Volunteers wideout Justin Hunter, who jumped four inches farther than Goodwin
and long jumped 26-feet, 1.5-inches before tearing his ACL back in 2011. Freaks.
Here’s Goodwin running:
