OT: What's your athletic profile?

[Cult of Dionysus]

Totally off-topic, but we are in the middle of off-season and let's have a little fun! What's your athletic profile in your prime? Basically, height / weight / speed / football skill / experience. Try to be honest.

I'll go first.

Height: 5'8
Weight: 135lbs
Speed: Really fast. Like 4.40 fast. Played Ultimate throughout college and law school and always fastest on the field. Okay top end speed, but first 4-5 steps...
Football Skill: Never played, but tossed a lot of football in the street and at the beach. Could throw an NFL ball 50 yds when I was twelve. Terrible accuracy though. Always threw behind anyone who was running. Excellent hands. Probably could have played WR in high school, had I not done home school. But getting hit would have been difficult. Just skin and bones.

[Valhalla]

Size: 6'1" 175
Speed: Not fast. Top end is ok, but there's no quick twitch here.
Football skill: I can throw pretty accurately and timely, but can't read a defense quickly. I'll lock onto a target and see an opening before he gets open, but I can't see multiple targets developing at once. If you aren't my first read, you aren't read...I have decent hands. Not fast enough for WR or RB, not quick twitch enough for any position on defense, not strong enough to be a lineman, not a good enough read to be a QB. you said this was supposed to be fun

[nathanq42]

5'7.5
160 lbs with a bit of baggage
Played soccer a my whole life, I was slower than most, but I could throw my weight around waaaaay better than those sissies so I'd basically play LB (no foot skills to speak of, but the middle of the field was mine, and I got the 50/50 balls by shoulder charging them)
I didnt play football, my hands are too small to throw or catch well. Plus my school didnt have a team and rec leagues in Vancouver are sparse.

[freddog97]

Jounior year of high school:
Height: 6ft
Weight: 285
Speed: 4.92 forty

I played in the trenches with the big guys. Started left tackle as a shophmore through my senior year. We were a run based team (as many high schools are) usually ran zone schemes with pulls/counters mixed in.

I was a brute for run blocking but average pass blocking. I would get beat with the more quick and elusive DEs.

[TheChicken]

6'0
185
Speed: slow long strider.
Muscle: minimal with a weak core.
Hands: Decent (goalkeeper in soccer)
Football Skill: Competitive below average athlete, nominally played Free Safety with decent recognition and play diagnosis. Not good enough to start so filled in for injured players, usually at DE or TE. Only played youth/recreational .... Would've got eaten alive in anything 18+! Strangely good throwing with plastic balls, but poor with proper Wison leather ones (probably a PSI issue)!

[ericanadian]

Probably when I was playing rugby in my mid-20s...

Size: 6'0" 210
Defense: Solid strength, toughness & reflexes. Poor body positioning and conditioning got me beat more often than I'd like to admit.
Receiving: Pan hands. I think there are not an insignificant number of people that could catch with literal pans as well as I do with my hands in a game situation. I also have almost no ability to track a ball in the air. Throwing me a deep ball is asking for an interception.
Passing: Solid arm strength, but my accuracy is erratic. Ball just gets away from me sometimes. I can read a defense and track more than one guy, but I'm not going to say I'm even average in this.

I'd probably profile as a smaller, slower & fatter Taylor Mays or a miniature JaMarcus Russell. I think we definitely need to put player comparables in this going forward.

[lukkynumber13]

Height: 6'1"
Weight: 185 lbs

Speed: Awful for a 27-year old skinny dude. Like, 5.10 forty a year ago haha although that was by hand, goofing around with coworkers

Vertical: 27" (Doesn't sound good compared to REAL athletes but I'm usually one of the better jumpers when playing rec-ball at a gym, especially compared to guys who aren't tiny) I can jump but I have NO agility

Football Skill: Never played, I have some accuracy but can't throw for distance. Even playing pickup flag football, I'm screwed if you're more than 20 yards away. I could theoretically be some sort of move TE, haha, if I were playing pickup 11 on 11 with random dudes at a park. I can run down the field, jump, decent hands, but don't ask me to run routes! I played right field in baseball for several years and usually hold my own when used as a cover guy playing flag football, so I suppose I'm passable as a free safety.

Professional athlete I most resemble: Um... Skinny Coby Fleener??? Haha

[nathanq42]

In that case my player comp would be john Ross but lighter and slower and fatter and not as good as catching or tracking the ball.. Basically I suck...

[lukkynumber13]

Jounior year of high school:
Height: 6ft
Weight: 285
Speed: 4.92 forty

You ran a 4.92 at 285 lbs????

[freddog97]

Jounior year of high school:
Height: 6ft
Weight: 285
Speed: 4.92 forty

You ran a 4.92 at 285 lbs????

Hand timed by coach...probably closer to 5.05-5.1 ish

[lukkynumber13]

Jounior year of high school:
Height: 6ft
Weight: 285
Speed: 4.92 forty

You ran a 4.92 at 285 lbs????

Hand timed by coach...probably closer to 5.05-5.1 ish

Dang! Still super impressive.

[kamihamster]

In my prime??

Height: 5'10"
Weight: 140lbs
Speed: 4.42
Skill: lots of flag-football rec league. I'm all quick twitch. I play mostly as a slot guy of Offense and free safety on defense. Don't have a lot of endurance to run nines all day so I preferred the short routes then turned on the burners if they threw me the ball.

[The.Big.Spank]

6', 115 lbs, average athletic ability, but an absolute string bean, but I was a superstar at one thing....winning.

Boxing and wrestling was what I was best at because I could stay in my weight class.

I have always been good at coaching, noticing tendencies in others and coming up with trick plays based on my opponents tendencies.

One of my favorite stories was in high school, the "gym teacher" Smiling Dave Catherman, picked six captains for football teams. Five of his football players and then me. Of course the jacka@@ had me pick last and it was not a snake draft. He was that teacher that was a king jock in high school and wanted to keep reliving his glory days and hated non jocks, especially me because I was so small and had a baby face.

We ended up winning the class championship because of my ability to come up with trick plays. I never let that snaggle toothed jacka@@ ever forget it either. He was the junior varsity coach and they went 1-9. Every time he insulted me in front of the class about my baby face of skinny body, and he did it a lot, I would ask him if he needed any help on the jv squad from a good coach.

[whodunnit]

Currently:

just a hair over 6'; 245 pounds
40: 5.2

I used to run the mile and throw shot put and occasionally do a 100 or 4x100 or 400 if needed... back when I was 5'11/170.

best profile on size alone would probably be Legarrette Blount, just slower. I used to play a little TE/DE on weekends, but my school didn't have a team...stupid small towns.

[Kcarr]

Back when I played, in high school:

6'2" 230 lbs
40 time, hand measured 5.0
Bench reps @ 225, 12
Never measured my cert but I touch about 8'3" flat footed in gym shoes and could easily jump from there and put my wrists on the rim so probably around 27"

Football skills: was more of a basketball player but started at DE and TE for a couple years at a varsity level on a small high school in central MT. We threw maybe 5 times a game so no receiving stats to speak of, probably a dozen catches in the couple years though a lot missed with injury. Solid blocking skills, limited route tree but caught what was thrown my way.

At DE I was quicker than most I faced. In basketball I always figured 9 guys on the court could beat me up and down the court but I could give pretty much any of them half a step from the free throw line and meet them at the rim. I used that quickness at DE beating the lineman around the corner. Also I haveryl long arms for my size, nearly 6'7" wingspan, and strong arms and hands from wrestling calves and sheep, again, small town central MT, so if I got ahold of a back they were usually caught.

On offense I would say a guy like Jason Witten but smaller and slower. Tough, aggressive, and willing.

On defense I don't know jj watt minus the size and athletic ability. I made over a sack per game, was tough against the run and played with all aggression and toughness even if it wasn't in the measurables