WORLD’S FASTEST FOOTBALL PLAYER
TRINDON HOLLIDAY
After recording a personal-best time of 10.00 seconds in the NCAA final en route to winning the NCAA 100-meter title in 2009, the case can be made that Trindon Holliday is the fastest football player in the history of the sport at any level. There have been a total of 117 men in history who have run a faster time in the 100-meter dash than Holliday’s personal-best wind-legal time of 10.00. It is known who they are, where they are from and when their times were recorded ... and none played the game of football at the time of their achievement. There have been 20 collegiate athletes who have recorded a faster time in the 100 meters than Holliday, but none played college football when they set their wind-legal PRs. The bottom line is that no high school, college or professional football player has ever run faster than Holliday during their football career. With this in mind, it is only fitting that Holliday be referred to as the fastest football player in the history of the sport.
WORLD’S FASTEST
FOOTBALL PLAYERS Athlete Trindon Holliday Jeff Demps Jacoby Ford “Bullet” Bob Hayes Ron Brown Alvis Whitted Darrell Green Willie Gault Johnny “Lam” Jones Herschel Walker Jamaal Charles Marvin Bracy Deion Sanders C.J. Spiller Raghib “Rocket” Ismail Bo Jackson Kary Vincent Jr. Renaldo Nehemiah
Top Time 10.00 10.01 10.01 10.06 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.10 10.14 10.23 10.23 10.25 10.26 10.29 10.34 10.44 10.07w 10.18w
Year 2009 2008 2009 1964 1983 1996 1983 1982 1977 1982 2006 2012 1988 2008 1991 1983 2019 1978
This information was gathered from www.iaaf.org, www. alltime-athletics.com and www.trackandfieldnews.com, as well as media guides from various colleges and universities across the country.
ON THE TRACK
Holliday cetainly proved to be one of the nation’s most electrifying two-sport athletes with his performance on the football field and the track during his collegiate career at LSU. A seven-time All-American on the track, Holliday cemented his position among the elite sprinters in collegiate track and field in 2009 as he was crowned NCAA Champion in the 100-meter dash after crossing the finish line in 10.00 seconds in the event final at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. He also finished second and third in the 100-meter final at the NCAA Championships during his career. Not only that, but Holliday anchored the Tigers’ 4x100-meter relay to an NCAA Championship at the outdoor national meet in 2008 with what was the sixth-fastest time in collegiate history at 38.42. The Zachary native has also competed in the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials and USA Outdoor Championships during his career.
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ON THE GRIDIRON
Holliday’s success is not limited to the track as he was one of the nation’s elite return specialists on the football field while returning four kicks for touchdowns during his brilliant LSU career from 2006-09. Among his highlights is a 92-yard punt return for a touchdown in a 41-3 win over North Texas on Sept. 13, 2008, before finishing the game with 163 punt return yards, which is the second-most in a single game in the history of the Southeastern Conference. He also returned two kicks for touchdowns against Arkansas, including a 92-yard kickoff return in 2006 and an 87-yard punt return in 2009. In all, Holliday racked up 3,297 all-purpose yards and scored eight touchdowns in four seasons as a member of the LSU football team. He was selected by the Houston Texans in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He also played for the Denver Broncos and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in his five NFL seasons, even returning four kicks for touchdowns for Denver in 2012 and 2013.
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