Bbomber23

He likely was on last year and beat the test, either by timing it better or using different gear. Just doing sprint training will shave a load of time off a big guys 40. OL and DL generally don't know how to sprint, they aren't the type to run track. So they run a 40 just based on instinct and put up whatever time, train specifically on how to run the 40 and shave a bunch of time off, combined with them getting in better all-around shape for the combine.Going from 5.11 to 4.82 under the circumstances isn't necessarily due to PED's IMO. I've seen lots of big guys shave time off their 40's just by learning how to run properly. Thats what I thought. Having that kind of improvement makes his story of not really knowing seem somewhat believable. Although I could be totally off-base with that. You never know.Going through his history on the concordia website and his high school he's been the same weight and size since grade 10. And I doubt he's been on it since then. Also you do have to give the kid some kind of recognition to how he handled the whole situation. He could have tried to defend himself or blamed someone but he didn't. I don't think this is going to affect his draft stock that much.

But even so wouldn't he have had much better improvements if he was on it for that long?

Nobody seems to notice that even before the combine and after it reporters and gm's were saying that he didn't come out of nowhere. Duane forde said in a post combine interview that smith was high on the radar already. He just wasn't getting as much media attention. A jump from 5.82 to 4.11 isn't so large and there were guys in the combine who made more dramatic improvements than that. And his stats weren't large enough jumps to make people suspicious . How long does it take for the steroids to show serious improvement? If you look at him from a year ago he's still the same size and speed. And he took a drug test at the east west bowl and was clean. I'm not saying I believe he didn't know but maybe some people are just that dumb.