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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 630052" data-attributes="member: 4300">I think Janis has a rare combination of size and speed, even for the NFL but I’m not sure how rare or in which percentile it puts him. As his draft profile on nfl.com says, he has “exceptional measurables and leaping ability -- will test through the roof”. If he had put up the same production at a major college, I'm sure he would have been drafted much higher. Even so, the draft profile guessed he’d be taken in rounds 4 or 5.Of course it takes more than speed to succeed in the NFL. I did a search for the fastest 40 times and found a Bleacher Report article written a year before Janis was drafted. In its opening it says, “This article takes the top 25 40 times since 2006 and ranks the value of those players. You’ll immediately notice that several players on this list have never developed into difference-makers.” <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646779-power-ranking-the-25-fastest-players-in-the-nfl" target="_blank">http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1646779-power-ranking-the-25-fastest-players-in-the-nfl</a>BTW, the fastest 40 time I found (not an exhaustive search) was Joey Galloway at 4.18 seconds.</blockquote>

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