Before last season began, Shaun Wade encapsulated fellow Ohio State cornerback Cameron Brown by simply calling him “very, very fast.”
In December, Brown finally put a number to those words. The rising junior says he ran a 4.3-second 40-yard dash in May. For reference, only three cornerbacks at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine broke 4.4 seconds, and nobody ran faster than Auburn’s Jamel Dean, who clocked a 4.3-second sprint.
But Brown, when he said his 40-yard time, made sure to note that it comes with an asterisk. A 4.3? No, no. He thinks he can do better.