Eagles rookie wide receiver Devon Allen won the 110-meter hurdles at the USA Track & Field New York Grand Prix on Sunday and posted the third-fastest time in the event ever recorded.
Allen finished with a time of 12.84, just four-hundredths of a second off the world record set by Aries Merritt in 2012. He beat Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Grant Holloway, who placed second with a time of 13.06.
"I thought I could break the record today," Allen told reporters after the race, according to NBC Sports Philadelphia. “Clean up a few things, and four-hundredths of a second is four-thousandths of a second per hurdle, which is so small.