Recent video of Cowboys legend shows blistering speed even after retirement
Tyron Smith was always a beast of an athlete. But his post-retirement speed would leave most of this year's RB draft prospects in the dust.
This time of the NFL offseason can spark some unusual debates. As football fans, we obsess about 40-yard sprint times for giant linemen who will never have to sprint that far at once. We scrutinize broad jump scores down to fractions of an inch even though no player ever has to actually perform that action in a game.
Thanks to the standardized testing used across the board by coaches and scouts, we can even fill the late-winter/early-spring downtime by comparing and contrasting measurables from players across different eras. Want to know how that stud wide receiver's speed stacks up historically against the fastest to ever play? Want to put the current top OL's bench press numbers against the strongest players of his father's era?
Heck, NFL Network uses state-of-the-art technology to superimpose Rich Eisen racing against a half-dozen iterations of himself from past year's combines. But the pure athletes always stand out. And a reminder of that truism is once again making the rounds on social media in regard to one of the best to ever put on a Cowboys uniform.
Tyron Smith was, of course, a highly-decorated tackle for the Cowboys, earning eight Pro Bowl trips and five All-Pro nods (first- and second-team combined) over a 14-year career that will almost certainly land him in the Hall of Fame one day. But Smith wasn't just a dominant force of nature in the trenches. He was an absolute freak of an athlete.