In the middle of this blazing 40 by Penn State safety and eventual Washington fourth-round draft pick Troy Apke, you can hear NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders lose all interest in anything other than the sight of this specific gentleman peeling off a sub-4.4 40.
Deion Sanders was so amazed by this particular player running a 4.35, he went to give him a hug
Washington picked this speedy athlete in the fourth round.
“Ay man, he can run!”
When pressed by a winking Mike Mayock on exactly why this is a surprise, Deion says, “you know why I’m surprised. I can’t say it on TV, but he can run run.”
Mayock and Rich Eisen laugh as Sanders remains awed by the former 100-meter track star. Prime feels led to overtake Apke for a dap and hug, still sounding like he’s just seen a unicorn surfing on a meteor.
Deceptive speed!
1. He says he told the Giants, who were picking 10th, that interviewing him would be a waste of everyone’s time.
“It happened to be the Giants’ room. They set me down and gave me a thick book. This thing was thicker than a phone book,” he said on NFL Network during the last day of 2017’s combine. “I said, ‘What’s this?’ They said, ‘This is our test that we give all the players.’ I said, ‘Excuse me, what pick do you have in the draft?’ They said, ‘10th.’ I said, ‘I’ll be gone before then. I’ll see y’all later.’ That’s a true story.”
If that happened, then Sanders was right. He went No. 5, behind three other future Hall of Famers.
As that link shows, people will believe basically anything about his performance that day, including the myth that he ran the whole thing in Timberland boots.
And now that Sanders has been bowled over by somebody else’s run, everyone’s impressed all over.
Apke’s good at football too, btw.
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