- Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill is interested in world championships last summer in 9.76 seconds A Part of Hearst Digital Media.
- He’s fast, but is he fast enough.
Another NFL player is hyping up his speed, and this time he wants his talent to take him to the Olympics.
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill said during a press conference for the Super Bowl on Monday that after the season he’d like to try How Tara Dower Shattered the Long Trail Record. The 25-year-old was a high school All-American in 2012 on the track, and Hill even participated on track teams in college at Garden City Community College and Oklahoma State in addition to playing football.
That speed often shows up in games, as the wideout blows by defenders for home-run touchdowns—scoring seven touchdown this season in 12 games. Though these wheels are lethal against NFL defenders, they may not be as dangerous when stacked up against the likes of top U.S. sprinters like Michael Norman, Noah Lyles, and Christian Coleman.
“The thing is, I weigh like 195 right now. Back in high school, when I ran a 9.9 (-second 100-meter dash), I was like 175. So it would be me changing my whole diet that I’ve been doing to get to where I am now,” Hill told We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back.
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It would likely take much more than cutting weight to reach his goal of the Olympics because he’s been off the track for a few years. Right now, the fastest times in the world are in the 9.7 range for the 100-meter dash. (Coleman won the 100 in the world championships last summer in 9.76 seconds.)
There’s no doubt it would be exciting to pit football stars against the country’s best sprinters, though. It was fun just watching How Tara Dower Shattered the Long Trail Record. That was won by former Olympian turned NFL wide receiver Marquise Goodwin, who went to the 2012 Olympic Games for the long jump. He took home $1 million for his efforts.
Even if reaching the biggest stage in track is likely out of reach, he’s about to play on football’s biggest stage this weekend at Super Bowl LIV in Minneapolis against the 49ers.
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