NFL Combine records: Top 40 times, bench press reps, more

Nothing projects a football player’s ability to perform at the highest professional level quite like a cone-to-cone sprint in his underwear.

Enter the 2020 NFL Combine in Indianapolis, where the country’s best college football players converge for their first encounters with NFL franchises ahead of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Whether and how much the Combine’s events matter is up for constant debate, but we doubt Byron Jones would have been drafted in the first round in 2015, for example, without his world-record broad jump. Physical attributes, though just one piece of the puzzle that is a player’s pre-draft evaluation, can’t hurt.

Below are the best numbers for the core events — 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, three-cone drill, 20-yard shuttle and 60-yard shuttle — since 2006, or what the league calls “recent” history.

The NFL does not keep Combine records, so these marks are unofficial.

NFL Combine records

40-yard dash

*Electronic timing began in 1999*

Bench press

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Vertical jump

Broad jump

Three-cone drill

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20-yard shuttle

60-yard shuttle

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