Subject: Archer eager to unleash his speedy skills with Steelers Sun Jun 29, 2014 12:44 pm
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By August Fagerstrom | Beacon Journal sports writer
BEREA: “Where are these pictures going to go up?” Dri Archer asked a photographer at a youth football clinic as part of the NFL Rookie Symposium at the Browns’ training facility in Berea.
Archer, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ third-round draft pick out of Kent State, is still getting used to all of the work and media attention that comes with being an NFL running back.
But he’s loving every second of it.
Minutes later Friday afternoon, the drill station to which Steelers rookies had been assigned had turned into a wild, full-fledged game of keepaway, and Archer, a 5-foot-7 running back, bobbed and weaved his way through a small army of screaming, flailing children.
They didn’t stand a chance.
The speedy Archer — also a track star in high school — turned heads at the NFL combine this year. His 40-yard dash time (4.26 seconds) was the second-fastest time ever recorded since the NFL began electronic timing. His time trails only Chris Johnson’s mark of 4.24 from the 2008 combine. CBS Sports deviates from the “official” time, marking Archer at 4.16.
