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Nearly 50 years old, could Willie Gault still play in the NFL?


The former Olympic-qualifying sprinter from the University of Tennessee (circa 1983) runs a 4.4 40 ("At my best I ran 4.2," he says.), and in 2006 set a world record of 10.72 seconds in the master's 100 meters for athletes aged 45 to 49 (Two years later, Gault set a new 200-meter world record of 21.80 seconds in the 45-49 age group). In January he competed in the Millrose Games, running a special-edition 60-yard dash against five other NFL veterans all at least 13 years his junior. Despite a dreadful start from the blocks, Gault placed third in a blistering 7.07 seconds. In other words, were he to join an NFL team, he would immediately be one of the leagues burners. "Chris Johnson is faster," he acknowledges. "Reggie Bush, too. But save for those two and maybe two or three others, I'm right there."


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Van wrote:How is he not already in possession of a signed and guaranteed big $$ deal from the Raiders? Can't Al just give the Vols a couple of 1st rounders, just on principle?