Robert Williams has a 40-inch vertical leap. Even written without context, without a visual, that comes across as impressive. The Patriots going for it on 4th-and-40 inches would make you sweat. A runner out at the plate by 40 inches is really out. A 40-inch snowstorm would make the Blizzard of ’78 look like a squall.
Even saying that Shawn Kemp, he of the countless YouTube highlight reels, also had a 40-inch vertical leap doesn’t quite paint the picture. Because while Kemp may have an inch on the debatably 6-foot-10 Williams, he didn’t have close to the 7-foot-5.