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The 40-yard dash was originally designed to measure special teams coverage skills. The 40-yard dash stems from the average distance of a punt and the time it takes to reach that distance and has never been an accurate predictor of game speed. Earlier this season, Patrick Mahomes explained that the reason he appears so much faster on the field than the underwhelming straight-line 4.8 40 he ran at the combine in 2017 is that…
