Byron Jones- world record

[superjohn]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...mbine--world-broad-jump-record-165547623.html I know it's football but I thought many of you don't always check out the football board in the offseason. This is absolutely incredible to me, just an unbelievable athlete.

 

[Fishy]

Jones blew up the internet today.

 

[Waquoit]

Did more for UConn football in one day than Diaco did in a year.

 

[4in16]

Did more for UConn football in one day than Diaco did in a year.

More than PP in 3 years.

 

[BUConn10]

Did more for UConn football in one day than Diaco did in a year.

Funniest thing I've read on the Yard in 2015

 

[CAHUSKY]

Tough to call it a "world record" when no one but the NFL and Norway have done it since 1912. Impressive to be sure but not like there are a ton of challenges to the throne.

 

[Fishy]

Tough to call it a "world record" when no one but the NFL and Norway have done it since 1912. Impressive to be sure but not like there are a ton of challenges to the throne.

WTF.

It's easy to call it a world record if it's a world record, f---face.

Write "Don't be that guy" in big letters on your computer monitor. It'll remind you not to be that guy in threads like this.

 

[CAHUSKY]

WTF.

It's easy to call it a world record if it's a world record, f---face.

Write "Don't be that guy" in big letters on your computer monitor. It'll remind you not to be that guy in threads like this.

An event that takes place once a year at the combine and in Norway. 100 long jumpers would probably eclipse it tomorrow if anyone cared to. They don't. No one but the NFL or Norwegians have since the 1912 Olympics. I'd like to see his time in the Hoplitodromos.

 

[superjohn]

An event that takes place once a year at the combine and in Norway. 100 long jumpers would probably eclipse it tomorrow if anyone cared to. They don't. No one but the NFL or Norwegians have since the 1912 Olympics. I'd like to see his time in the Hoplitodromos.

Marquise Goodwin who was the 2 time reigning NCAA long jump champion and an Olympic long jumper ran a 4.27 40 in 2013 at the combine and had a broad jump of 11 feet, more than a foot shorter than Byron Jones. As Fishy said, "Don't be that guy," it only makes you look foolish and petty.

 

[Cheeky]

I'd like to see his time in the Hoplitodromos.

I'd like to see you stop using silly words.

 

[pnow15]

Can he make a layup?

 

[BlueMAB]

Tough to call it a "world record" when no one but the NFL and Norway have done it since 1912. Impressive to be sure but not like there are a ton of challenges to the throne.

 

[imno1]

After the Ray Rice incident you woulda thunk they'd get rid of the broad jump

 

[ctchamps]

Tough to call it a "world record" when no one but the NFL and Norway have done it since 1912. Impressive to be sure but not like there are a ton of challenges to the throne.

Your numbers argument would have more merit if the small population of people tested weren't training their bodies to develop the muscles for conditions that the broad jump is representative. This guy broke a record that uber athletes were specifically training their bodies to perform. It's an incredible feat.

 

[tykurez]

Stanley Robinson is still the better athlete ...

 

[Dove]

Who holds the record for a broad jump in an NFL game?

 

[jibsey]

I just tried this and went about 4 feet, the room I'm in is 12 feet long, wow!

 

[Joobie]

Hope his record setting performance translates into a high draft pick. Way to go, Byron!

 

[tcf15]

Hope his record setting performance translates into a high draft pick. Way to go, Byron!

New mock draft on NFL.com had him going 20th overall: http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/mock-drafts/daniel-jeremiah/230601

 

[Joobie]

New mock draft on NFL.com had him going 20th overall: http://www.nfl.com/draft/2015/mock-drafts/daniel-jeremiah/230601

That is AWESOME! Thanks for providing the link tcf. Any word on where & how high Geremy Davis might go?