Seems like Brown and Green dominated those NFL fastest man competitions in the early 90's.
1990
Champion: Ron Brown.
Brown defeated Erik McMillan of the New York Jets, 6.23 to 6.54
Gault beat Eric Metcalf of the Cleveland Browns, 6.31 to 6.34.
Anthony Miller of the Chargers beat (as of yet not found)
Rod Woodson of the Steelers beat (as of yet not found)
Brown ran the next heat in 6.16 seconds, ahead of Rod Woodson's 6.43.
Gault, beat Anthony Miller 6.28 to 6.30.
The final heat:
Ron Brown - 6.18
Willie Gault - 6.32
1991
Champion: Darrell Green
In the first two heats, Green beat Sam Graddy of the Raiders with a 6.19 clocking and ran the best time of the day (6.13) in beating Mel Gray of the Detroit Lions in his first heat.
Tim Brown beat the Vikings Herschel Walker with a 6.30 time and then bested Anthony Miller of the San Diego Chargers with 6.25 time in his first two heats.
In the other two races, Miller beat Tony Jones of the Houston Oilers and Graddy beat James Williams of the Buffalo Bills. The Graddy-Williams heat was a photo finish.
Green and Brown raced in the championship heat and both finished with a time of 6.17 seconds, but Green edged Ron Brown with his chest at the tape in a photo finish.
Shout out to Eddie Kennison who won the last NFL's fastest man competition.
1997
Champion: Eddie Kennison
Kennison won the annual NFL Fastest Man event with a time of 6.12 seconds in the 60-yard dash.
In an odd turn, Kennison lost his heat race to Oakland defensive back James Trapp. However, Kennison's time was second-fastest in the preliminaries, and the rules stipulated that he would be allowed to compete in the final heat.
Other players in the field were James Jett of the Raiders, and Travis Jervey.
1997 marked the end of the competition that lasted a bit over a decade. In looking at the Pro Football Chronicle data combined with the 1990s data we find:
Fastest time in the 1990s: James Jett 6.10.
Fastest time in the 1980s: Ron Brown 6.095
Darrell Green won the most titles with four and that would seemingly verify that he was the NFL's Fastest man.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/2022 11:57PM by Killrazor.
