Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly asks you to ignore the 4.42-second 40-yard dash Chase Claypool blazed at the 2020 NFL Combine. And definitely try not to dwell on the fact Claypool, whom the Steelers selected with the No. 49 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, ran that at 6-foot-4, 238 pounds. Sure, it marked the fastest 40 by any 230-pound-plus receiver since Calvin Johnson in 2006, but just push it aside for now.
After recruiting Claypool and watching him day after day for four years at Notre Dame, Kelly can't shake a different trait of Claypool's from the front of his mind.