Every official and unofficial stat sheet you can find from the 2005 NFL Combine indicates Aaron Rodgers ran the 40-yard dash in 4.71 seconds, but for some reason the Green Bay Packers quarterback does not remember it that way.
Earlier this week, the NFL’s official Twitter account shared a throwback photo of Rodgers running the 40-yard dash before he was drafted. Rodgers insists he ran it in 4.66 seconds, not 4.71.
.@AaronRodgers12 running a 4.71 40-yard dash at the 2005 #NFLCombine! pic.twitter.com/eARsWdPsvE
— NFL (@NFL) February 22, 2017
4.66. #fakenews #teamadidas #TwinkiesFlyingEverywhere #WhatMotivatesMeIn4Words https://t.co/UmRb36PlUm
— Aaron Rodgers (@AaronRodgers12) February 23, 2017
This isn’t the first time Rodgers has claimed the 4.71 time is wrong. He has spoken in past interviews about how he was actually faster after he had surgery to repair a torn ACL while in college at Cal.
“I went under the knife, I was a 4.95 40 guy,” Rodgers told Bill Simmons on HBO last July. “I came out, I ran 4.66 at the combine a year later.”
Running a 4.71 is fast for quarterbacks, but Rodgers apparently feels he is consistently being cheated out of 0.05 seconds. For comparison, Andrew Luck ran a 4.67 40-yard dash at his Combine. Derek Carr ran a 4.69. Marcus Mariota ran a blazing 4.48 two years ago.
All of the official results show Rodgers at 4.71 seconds, so he must believe there was a timing error of some sort. Or, he could just be trolling everyone like the time he claimed he saw a UFO. We wouldn’t rule either scenario out.
