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Utah cornerback Javelin Guidry may be as fast as anyone in college football, but speed is only part of his game

Utah cornerback Javelin Guidry already is regarded as the fastest player in the modern history of Ute football, defined as the 25-plus years that coach Kyle Whittingham has worked in the program.

Guidry devoted part of the winter to training and competing as a sprinter, applying the logic that such conditioning would help him in football. “Speed,” Guidry said this week, “is everything.”

That’s a good starting point in the 5-foot-9, 190-pound Guidry’s job description as a slot corner, anyway. He’s charged with covering receivers of all shapes and sizes and making tackles, playing almost a linebacker’s role at times in Utah’s standard scheme that uses five defensive backs.