Vita Vea joked on Saturday that he was going to chase down the 4.22-second 40-yard dash record held by former Washington teammate John Ross.
“You can tell John Ross and Adidas that I’m coming for the island,” he said.
At 347 pounds, Vea was never going to do that, of course. But he impressed nonetheless with his much-anticipated 40 time Sunday morning at the NFL Scouting Combine, closing with a top-10 time — 5.11 seconds — among defensive linemen. (Most of the defensive linemen who ran faster weighed less than 300 pounds, and none of those guys weighed more than 315.