{"id":496964,"date":"2026-03-01T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496964\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:52:07","slug":"brenen-thompson-runs-a-blazing-4-26-second-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496964\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenen Thompson runs a blazing 4.26-second 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most positions, the 40-yard dash doesn\u2019t mean much. Those players will run 40 yards in a straight line during a game only when something very good, or very bad, is happening on the field.<\/p>\n<p>For receivers, it\u2019s far more relevant. And Mississippi State receiver Brenan Thompson ran a blazing 40-yard dash on Saturday in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Via Jeff Legwold of ESPN.com, Thompson generated the fastest 40 at the 2026 Scouting Combine, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48066932\/mississippi-state-thompson-clocks-426-40-nfl-combine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at 4.26 seconds<\/a>. Unless one of the offensive linemen does something extremely unexpected on Sunday, Thompson will be the 40 king of this year\u2019s workouts.<\/p>\n<p>The number puts Thompson only 0.05 seconds behind the Combine record of 4.21 seconds, set two years ago by Chiefs receiver Xavier Worthy.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson lands in a five-way tie for the fifth-fastest all-time 40-yard dash in Indy. Still, there\u2019s not much of a correlation between ridiculous straight-line speed and NFL success. The best of the fastest players was running back Chris Johnson, who ran a 4.24-second 40 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s always better to be fast. And Thompson proved on Saturday that he\u2019s among the fastest to ever run the 40 in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most positions, the 40-yard dash doesn\u2019t mean much. Those players will run 40 yards in a straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-496964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}