Jordan Brailford placed comfortably inside the top-10 performers in the 40-yard dash among edge rushers, defensive linemen and linebackers Sunday at the NFL Combine. His 4.65 was eighth-best among the dozens who participated, and second-fastest among ex-Big 12ers.
Overshadowed by Brailford’s bolt in the event was Mississippi State star Montez Sweat running a 4.41 (!) in the event, the fastest by a defensive linemen in the event since at least 2003. But Brailford, like his former OSU and Booker T. Washington teammate Justice Hill, made himself some money by running a very respectable time. (Hill ran a 4.