Tuesdays with Gorney: Receivers continue to redefine speed at NFL Combine

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If there is one lesson learned for top recruits from Isaiah Bond’s promise to break the 40-yard dash record at the NFL Combine and then not come close, it’s this: Be sure to under-promise and over-deliver.
Not the other way around.

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Leading up to Saturday’s run in Indianapolis, the former four-star from Buford, Ga., who started his career at Alabama and then transferred to Texas told reporters at the combine that basically, Xavier Worthy’s record would be short-lived.

“I’m going to break the record for sure,” Bond said. “I anticipate running 4.20 or possibly if I’m feeling great, I might run a 4.1.”

He must not have felt that great.

Bond, who finished third on the Longhorns with 34 catches for 540 yards and five touchdowns last season and is projected as an early- to mid-round draft pick, went 4.41 and 4.39 during his two runs at the combine.

The problem is this: Those are more-than-solid times. But he was promising to break records and that’s nearly impossible to live up to so even though he put up excellent numbers, it underwhelmed and deflated the hype going into the event.

“There’s fast,” Worthy tweeted minutes after Bond’s runs. “Then there’s me.”

The Texas receiver who actually stole the show on Saturday was Matthew Golden, a four-star transfer from Houston who led the team in all receiving categories this season.

The former Klein (Texas) Cain standout…

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Publish date : 2025-03-04 15:34:00

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