Relax C N Red. Agility helps with being a solid football player.
It helps but it's really not important to anybody but NFL scouts.
Next time TMart scrambles and lacks that little extra wiggle to turn it into something huge, tell me that agility isn't important...
I wonder how Taylor would do in a 5-10-5 agility test. Obviously he has speed for days but his lateral movement leaves room for big improvement in my opinion. Someone like Turner or Abdullah would test pretty well in something like that though.
Taylor ran a 3.97 PA at the 2008 LA Scout combine. That is elite by any standards. Pro agility is a good indicator of a guy's quickness, but it doesn't necessarily correlate on the field. My PB in the shuttle is a 3.88, but I know plenty of guys with better moves and agility on the field/court than myself. Running a good shuttle is a great deal of technique, much more so than a 40 or vertical, where a guy who knows what he's doing can take as much as .5 off his time pretty easily. Body control and balance (which can easily be seen during a game) are the biggest determinants in someone's overall "quickness".
