They don’t time you in the 31-yard-dash. Especially in the 31 most important football yards of your life.
Rasheem Green, a freshman from Serra High, is 6-foot-5 and 285 pounds. He followed USC teammate Claude Pelon to the feet of Josh Rosen, and Pelon had already separated the ball and had it sitting up nicely for him.
“I didn’t see anything else,” Pelon said. “I had my face planted and I knew it was a turnover and I said, ‘Finally.’ And then I heard the crowd. ...”
As Deion Sanders would say, Green was suddenly “Big Man With Ball.