The board and the record

The three numbers at the top come from every official Combine 40 run since 2000. Xavier Worthy’s 4.21 in 2024 is the fastest, 4.68 is the middle of all 7,643 ranked times, and cornerbacks are the quickest group with a median of 4.49. Donte’ Stallworth is listed at 4.22 from 2002, but that time comes from the early years of electronic timing and the NFL’s own record lists don’t carry it, so the record here stays with Worthy.

Racing three runners

Each lane takes a Combine player, a time you type in, or a position median from the speed ladder, and the race restarts whenever the lineup changes. Everyone runs at their own average speed, so when the winner reaches the line the track pauses and marks where the others are. Worthy against the median offensive lineman ends 1.03 seconds apart, which leaves the lineman about 7.9 yards short of the finish: the seconds are exact, while the yards are an estimate, since sprinters are still speeding up early in the run and this data has no split times.

Copy race link saves all three lanes in the page address, so the same race opens for whoever you send it to.

One time, twelve positions

The ranking block counts how many runs at each position were slower than the selected time and how many matched it exactly; nothing is smoothed or turned into a percentile. The same number lands in very different places: a 5.20 is ahead of 739 of 1,274 offensive linemen but behind all 817 cornerbacks, because the middle times of those two groups sit 0.75 seconds apart. When the runner is a Combine player, his own run is left out of the counts, so Worthy shows as the fastest of 7,643 instead of tied with himself.

The speed ladder and the fastest list

The ladder puts every position’s median on one scale, with each group’s best time beside it and a line for each runner on the track. Tapping a position sends its median to a free lane. The list below shows the fastest 40s overall or for one position, including everyone tied for tenth, and any row can go straight onto the track.

Players without a ranked time

There was no Combine in 2021, so that class’s times come from pro days. Those players can still be found and raced, marked as pro day times, but they aren’t counted in any ranking. Players who skipped the 40 at the Combine, such as Ashton Jeanty in 2025, show up with a note instead of a borrowed pro day number.

Your own time

Any time from 4.00 to 8.00 seconds can go in a lane. A handheld stopwatch can be off by a noticeable margin compared with the electronic timing used at the Combine, so a hand-timed run works as a rough comparison, not as a Combine-equivalent mark.

Combine results 2000–2026 from Pro Football Reference, compiled by nflverse. Timing note: Wikipedia, 40-yard dash.

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