Peyton Manning has never been a fast guy. But he’s at least faster than his brother.
That’s what he told campers at the Manning Passing Academy, when asked about the importance of speed at his position.
“When I was a senior being recruited by Tulane at the Tulane Football Camp, we ran 40s and they said that I ran a 4.88 [seconds] that day,” Manning joked, via Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “I’m pretty sure that was [then Tulane coach] Buddy Teevens just doing some good recruiting. I probably ran about a 5.