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How much will Xavier Worthy’s 40-yard dash record influence NFL Draft? Why talent evaluators might care more than you think

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Xavier Worthy fired off the tweet from his Indianapolis hotel room at the NFL scouting combine.

“Turn on the film[,] the routes there,” Worthy tweeted at 7:18 a.m. on March 3. “Don’t let that lil 40 mess your head up.”

Turn on the film the routes there don’t let that lil 40 mess your head up

— Z A Y ud83dudda4 (@XavierWorthy) March 3, 2024

The “lil 40” that the Texas Longhorns wide receiver was referencing wasn’t, actually, so little.

Worthy had run a record-breaking 4.