23 Years After Embarrassing Show at the Combine, Tom Brady Ignores Passionate YouTuber’ Request, Leaving Him to Find Creative Way to Win

Tom Brady is arguably the greatest quarterback of all time in the NFL. But one thing he is not is a great 40-yard runner. He ran a 5.17-second 40-yard dash in the 2000 NFL combine, one of the slowest times ever and that took a huge toll on his draft stock that year. 23 years later, a YouTuber has set out to beat the GOAT in his own time.

YouTuber Nick Symmonds had a request for Tom Brady which TB12 ignored. That led to Symonds having to get creative to win the challenge and he found the perfect way to do it. 23 years after his embarrassing Combine run, fans got a chance to beat Brady in a 40-yard dash. How did that pan out for them exactly?

College kids beat Tom Brady in a 40-yard dash

Symmonds brought a $3,099 cable cam system and put a Brady cut out on it to recreate the QB’s Combine time of 5.17 seconds. And then, it was time to get to work. Symmonds invited the Oregon State University students to run and beat the Brady cut out in a 40-yard dash. And if anyone did beat Brady’s combine time, they went home $100 richer. A very creative idea no doubt.

Symmonds got what he wanted out of it, a YouTube video. But imagine Brady had responded. Maybe he could have beaten his combine timings and shut everyone about his athleticism once and for all. But there is a downside to it too. Then the fans would have pestered him to come out of retirement he announced in February and play again in the NFL. Too great a risk with too little reward. And he has touched heights even with that reputation.

Skinny little kid from San Mateo 

Tom Brady wasn’t athletic ever in his career. But he had something that nobody else had at his level, a dead-straight pocket vision and a bullet arm. And that took him from a skinny little kid from San Mateo to the GOAT quarterback the NFL fans know of.

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Brady won seven Super Bowl titles in his career, all without the athleticism everyone has been obsessed about. If Brady can achieve what he did, it serves as an inspiration to kids with little natural athletic abilities to do well in the game. Many young people beat Brady in the 40-yard dash in Nick Symmonds’ video. But not many can reach the level he is on in the NFL Pantheon. Will anybody else be able to touch the QB the New England Patriots picked 199th in the 2000 NFL draft?

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