Who's Faster? Baskeball players or Football Players?

Question

When i ask this question i know that a power forward wouldn't out run a running back, but you take a fast guard like Allen Iverson who's a pretty good football player also and put him up against a fast football player who will win. ARE BASKETBALL PLAYERS FASTER THAN THEY GET CREDIT FOR?

Not to mention i'm a college basketball player and i'm faster than some of the fastest football players at my school. Is that possible at the professional level?

Answer 1

They don't really test their 40 yd. dash so i don't really know if T.J. Ford can run faster than Regiie Bush.

Answer 2

the average Basketball player runs 25 miles per game. so if you look at a basketball player the whole game fro, beginning to end he's not going to start walking, he's gonna sprint. basketball players are faster cause after running 25 miles they can still sprint down the court.

Answer 3

I think a football Wide Out could out run any basketball player. They have to be so fast and agile to escape a corner back. So I think football players have more speed.

Answer 4

Technically, "ballers" are faster, since they have longer legs and have less fat/muscle weight to carry on..

Answer 5

b-ball players have moer stamina id say

but when it comes to pure speed its un comparable

devin hester against iverson? you kiddin me?

reggie bush against wade? dont make me laugh

football players know they have to have speed in full gear, which means pads and helmet, which adds to their weight, so they are train to be faster

b-ball players dont need speed as much as we do...after all they dont have to sprint 100 yards

Answer 6

The Next Best Runnin Fest Basket ball players do not run 25 miles a game maybe 2.5.A soccer player at the most will run 7 miles a game and a soccer player runs a lot more then any basket  ball player.Back to the question.FOOTBALL player no question many Wide outs could of and did run track at the college level and were great not really any basketball players did.

Answer 7

The reason basketball players are faster because we wear pads and that's an extra 5-10 pounds we have to carry

Answer 8

people say basket ball players are faster but remember take the pads of the football players and then you could see who really is faster

Answer 9

On average basketball players are faster then football players, becuase football positions vary from incredibley fast rb's to big and tall lineman.  In basketball everyone needs to be fast.  

Answer 10

football players with or without pads

Answer 11

I play basketball too and I've seen many of our girls on our team compete with the football team during sprints and stuff.  I think that basketball players are definitely faster than others give them credit for.  

Answer 12

basketball players are because they have to wear no pads take the pads off and see what happens

Answer 13

I have coached both, and traditionally speaking you are largely measuring two totally different things.  

However, lets start off with your man Iverson.  Ever watched tape from his high school days as a QB in Newport News?  Michael Vick, who lived nearby, wanted to be Iverson--check out some of his game tapes back in high school.  The spread offense with the scramble QB may well have started with Iverson, not some abstract Xs and Os on a chalk board.  In this case, a basketball player was definitively faster than other football players.  The only reason why Va Tech lucked up and landed Vick, was because no one was recruiting him--they all wanted Iverson to come play for them.

Todays spread offenses and their passing game have incorporated a few new tricks--go for the ball at the highest point, many plays have one receiver "rub" another's defender (thereby opening up space for the other to make a designed play), and then there is the smash.  Excluding the last point, sound familiar?  They should; they are rebounding and picking.  The smash, by the way, is simply a route using a juke.    

Nevertheless, football is still largely coached to be played North-South--we football coaches are not often credited with being very progressive thinkers.  A basketball player, in contrast, would be crippled offensively and defensively if he did not have the capacity to move with speed in any direction at will.  

It gets even more complicated, if you look at the greater variety of positions in football.  I myself think any receiver who doesnt play prep basketball is lacking too many tools.  Moreover, track speed is useless.  It is far more important to have a capacity to shift gears within fluid multi-directional movement--i.e., have a basketball player's speed.

I dont think anyone can say for a fact that basketball players are generally faster than football players, nor could they argue otherwise.  However, with the nature of football today, it is fair to say that on average well-trained basketball players are well equipped to own most skills players one-on-one out on the gridiron.

Answer 14

CMON... football players are way faster than basketball players.  Basketball players can be quick but c'mon. a corner back or a wideout

Answer 15

basketball players don't have to be fast. They just have to be consistant with running.

Football players DO have to run fast.

Basketball is like..... Long distance keeping a pace and going for a long time.

Football is like...... Track, running fast for a short period of time.

Makes sense?

:)