Recent video of Cowboys legend shows blistering speed even after retirement

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This time of the NFL offseason can spark some unusual debates. As football fans, we obsess about 40-yard sprint times for giant linemen who will never have to sprint that far at once. We scrutinize broad jump scores down to fractions of an inch even though no player ever has to actually perform that action in a game.

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Thanks to the standardized testing used across the board by coaches and scouts, we can even fill the late-winter/early-spring downtime by comparing and contrasting measurables from players across different eras. Want to know how that stud wide receiver's speed stacks up historically against the fastest to ever play? Want to put the current top OL's bench press numbers against the strongest players of his father's era? Heck, NFL Network uses state-of-the-art technology to superimpose Rich Eisen racing against a half-dozen iterations of himself from past year's combines.

But the pure athletes always stand out. And a reminder of that truism is once again making the rounds on social media in regard to one of the best to ever put on a Cowboys uniform.

Tyron Smith was, of course, a highly-decorated tackle for the Cowboys, earning eight Pro Bowl trips and five All-Pro nods (first- and second-team combined) over a 14-year career that will almost certainly land him in the Hall of Fame one day.

But Smith wasn't just a dominant force of nature in the trenches. He was an absolute freak of an athlete. And he still is. A video clip recirculated just this week shows Smith working out last November.

His 10-yard split time? A blistering 1.55 seconds.

Incredibly, Smith was 34 when the video was shot. It had been over a year since playing his final NFL snap and a full seven months since his retirement ceremony at The Star in Frisco.

That split time would have been the 10th-fastest among all running backs at this year's scouting combine. It was faster than Smith's own 10-yard split at the 2011 combine, when he was 21 years old and a first-round draft prospect coming out of Southern Cal. And it was even reported to be faster than the 10-yard split times of Terrell Owens, Marvin Harrison, and Randy Moss (though it should be noted that Moss did not attend the 1998 combine and we have only his reported pro day numbers to go by... and Harrison did not fully test in 1996).

Skeptics will point out that we don't know that the setup in Smith's recent video can be considered official, but that is a retired 34-year-old human who stands six-foot-five and was the game's premier tackle for well over a decade at a playing weight of 320 pounds... moving at a speed that goes nose-to-nose with some of the best running backs and wide receivers in their prime.

Seriously impressive stuff.

Granted, the video was shot five months ago. But if Smith wanted to come out of retirement right now and return to the Cowboys offensive line- or maybe even the backfield- who says no?

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