How Wide Is A Football Field

Cayleb Jones competes with a smile

Four-star wide receiver Cayleb Jones (Austin, Texas/Stephen F. Austin) wants to be your friend. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Under Armour All-American says he can make friends with pretty much anyone he meets.

He has a welcoming smile and a charismatic personality that rubs off on his teammates and his classmates.

However, everything changes when Jones steps on the football field.

"All the friendships are gone and the smile is erased once he steps on that field," head coach L.D. Williams said. "He's goes from being the nicest guy you've met to one of the fiercest competitors I've ever coached."

Jones, who committed to Texas in February, admits that competition can sometimes get the best of him.

"If we're in a competitive environment I want to win, I need to win," Jones said. "If we're doing a drill I have to be the guy that finishes first."

Jones is responsible for one of the most amazing high school football catches in recent memory -- a one-handed snag in traffic in an early season game against Belton (Texas). Jones had 12 other catches in that game, a 66-63 victory for Stephen F. Austin

The catch is on YouTube, where more than 37,000 people have viewed it.

"I'm known a little bit for that catch, but I try to catch everything that comes my way so it really isn't a big deal," Jones added.

Williams disagrees.

"He does things that normal receivers just can't do and that what makes him so special," Williams said. "In that game he had a couple of amazing one-handed grabs that helped us win."

Despite living in Austin over the last 10 years and growing in the Longhorn culture, Jones admits he had second thoughts before making his commitment.

"There were some days I didn't know whether I wanted to stay here or go to a new environment, but as the days went by I knew what was best for me and my family," he said.

"I always liked other teams and thought about what it would be like to play at this school or that school, but it's easy to fall in love with the Longhorns."

Jones is a popular figure with his current teammates and his future ones. His competitive nature will be on display soon when 2011 commit Miles Onyegbule stops by his house to play some video games.

"We're going to play a little NCAA Football and I'm going to have to give him a whipping," Jones said. "I'm the best at the game by far and he knows it so he knows what's going to happen.

" Jackson Jeffcoat might stop by, too. He can get me at Call of Duty sometimes, but in NCAA he knows what's going to happen.

The Fastest Players In College Football, 2011 | Heismanpundit

It’s time for Heismanpundit’s annual list of the fastest players in college football.

Now, some of you are going to disagree with parts of this, most likely by quoting a hand-timed 40-yard dash that you read about on some fan site, or a track time that can’t be independently verified.  And I get that some pretty fast players may not make it here.

But I am basing this list upon hard data, meaning verifiable and relatively recent track times.  If a mark is in the distant past and the player’s body composition has changed markedly or an injury has occurred, I take that into account.   I compile the data and combine it with my knowledge of track and field (I am an aficionado of the sport) as well as my own observations of how these players move on the gridiron, plus other factors such as weight gain and abundance of available data.

This list recognizes that most of the 40-yard dash times reported out there are bogus, due not only to inaccurate and scurrilous timing methods (a strength coach’s thumb being the main arbiter most of the time), but also because they are run under widely disparate and unreported conditions that render them unreliable.

The list is not about anecdotal evidence, but quantifiable data that we can  verify have such times. So those are the players we stick to on this list.