Wearing a white t-shirt with a gigantic blue 1 printed on its chest, Michigan quarterback Tom Brady did not know at the time that the 40-yard dash he was about to run would one day turn into the stuff of legends. A comparatively abysmal 5.28 seconds later, the then 22-year old had hurt his already middling draft stock to a point where he would not be picked until the 199th selection a couple of months later.
Brady’s limited abilities to work as a runner in a time when speed was seen as a necessary tool a quarterback needs to possess — think: Steve Young, John Elway, Brett Favre — followed him through the draft process and all the way into his professional career.