HeismanPundit Ranks Fastest Players in College Football for '09

From HeismanPundit.com:

1.  Jeff Demps, Florida
1a.  Trindon Holliday, LSU
3.  Jacoby Ford Jr., Clemson
4.  C.J. Spiller, Clemson
5.  Randall Carroll, UCLA
6.  Jahvid Best, Cal
7.  Derrick Hopkins, USF
8.  T.J. Graham, NC State
9.  Jeshua Anderson, Washington State
10.  Robert Griffin, Baylor

HP, come on now, Randall Carroll at #5?  People need to calm down about his 100m time and watch him on a football field not a track.  Watch his highlights from Cathedral or videos like this one and be the judge. Randall reminds me a lot of Derrick Jones up in Oregon.  Derrick was the 10.3 burner track star at Poly during the same time when he was teammates with DJax; on the football field, the speed was completely flipped.  Randall is a fast player, but not close to his world-class track speed with pads on.

Going back to the list, I would move C.J. Spiller up to 1b at the very least.  I love J. Demps and he has ridiculous acceleration, but Spiller holds his top-line speed better in my opinion.  When I saw the list, I immediately thought back to Spiller's kick return against Bama last year to start the season and the GTech TD on the sideline.  Trindon is also scary fast.  They all deserve to be argued for #1.

Maybe HP didn't want to make this an all-South list, but how is Chris Rainey not even considered in the Honorable Mentions?  That's just bad.

As for Trojans being on the list?  Someone out there will mention Taylor Mays to which I will shake my head.  As much as I love Taylor, he's another player that runs great on track but doesn't translate on the field; for a guy that purportedly runs a high 4.2/low 4.3, I just don't see it.  Travon is a nice mention. Joe McKnight is more acceleration than speed.  If this ranking was about the top players that can turn the corner on a defense, Joe would be ranked in the top 5.