{"id":428041,"date":"2023-06-26T19:57:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=428041"},"modified":"2023-06-26T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:57:44","slug":"eagles-wide-receiver-devon-allen-runs-4th-fastest-110m-hurdles-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/eagles-wide-receiver-devon-allen-runs-4th-fastest-110m-hurdles-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Wide Receiver Devon Allen Runs 4th Fastest 110m Hurdles In 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Devon Allen was back at the races.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Olympian Allen, who rejoined football for the first time since playing NCAA football in 2016, finished second in the 110-meter hurdles at the USATF New York City Grand Prix on Saturday with a mark of 13.04 seconds. Allen made the Philadelphia Eagles practice squad last year.<\/p>\n<h2>Eagles Wide Receiver Devon Allen Runs 4th Fastest 110m Hurdles In 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Starting with the event at the Penn Relays, which he won with a time of 13.46 in April, Allen has lowered his time in each of the five 110-meter hurdles races he has participated in this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eagles WR Devon Allen ran the 110M hurdles in 13.04 seconds, tied for the 4th-fastest time in the world this year \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EafS7DcZlc\">pic.twitter.com\/EafS7DcZlc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brgridiron\/status\/1673410067855728640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While his timing was just slightly slower than that of fellow American Daniel Roberts (13.01 seconds), it was still quick enough to tie him for the fourth-fastest time in the world so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2022 NFL season, Allen signed a reserve\/future deal with Philadelphia. He later discussed finding time for both sports in an interview with the NBC broadcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eagles WR Devon Allen runs 13.04-second 110M hurdles, tied for fourth-fastest in world this year<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HEE02f8UaV\">https:\/\/t.co\/HEE02f8UaV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gHqZwJoLoK\">pic.twitter.com\/gHqZwJoLoK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Around The NFL (@AroundTheNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AroundTheNFL\/status\/1673305745163689985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He had postponed his football career to focus on track and field, and in the last two Olympics, he placed fifth and fourth in the 110-meter hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>On the NBC Sports broadcast, he was questioned about how he balances football with track &amp; field.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Americans 1-4 in the\ud83c\udf0eworld this season for the 110mH!<\/p>\n<p>12.96\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Cordell Tinch<br \/>12.98\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Grant Holloway<br \/>13.01\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Daniel Roberts<br \/>13.04\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Devon Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzAJks3rFL\">pic.twitter.com\/PzAJks3rFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travismillerx13\/status\/1672656454300446722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going well. You know, balancing both is difficult, but I&#8217;m having a lot of fun,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As long as I can stay healthy, it&#8217;s good to compete against these guys in high-quality competition. You know, 13.01 and 13.04 is nothing to scoff at, so we&#8217;re ready to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next up for Allen is the USATF Outdoor Championships, which will take place from July 6\u20139 in Eugene, Oregon. He has stated that he would need to pick a choice if he were to earn a spot in the global championships, which would be held in Budapest, Hungary, from August 18\u201327.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A year later and we\u2019re still not over this \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Prevagen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Prevagen<\/a> Memorable Moment of the Meet from the 2022 USATF NYC Grand Prix has to go to Devon Allen\u2019s 12.84 in the 110mH! \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JourneyToGold?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JourneyToGold<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Prevagen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Prevagen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tz5LmgLXk9\">pic.twitter.com\/tz5LmgLXk9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; USATF (@usatf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usatf\/status\/1671197328567414797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I still don&#8217;t have a plan of what I&#8217;m going to do with worlds being, you know, during training camp,&#8221; Allen told KPIC-TV in Oregon ahead of the NYC Grand Prix. &#8220;Obviously, it&#8217;d be nice to compete at worlds and also it would be nice to be at training camp so I can make the 53-man roster. So, obviously it&#8217;s going to be a little bit of a decision, but I&#8217;m not going to worry about that, like I said, \u00a0until I make the world championship team. USA is a competitive meet. Just got to focus on doing that first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NFL Wide Receiver Brandon Marshall Has MetLife Stadium Turf To Blame For His Career\u2019s Failure\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nfl-wide-receiver-brandon-marshall-has-metlife-stadium-turf-to-blame-for-his-careers-failure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NFL Wide Receiver Brandon Marshall Has MetLife Stadium Turf To Blame For His Career\u2019s Failure<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Devon Allen was back at the races. The two-time Olympian Allen, who rejoined football for the first time since playing NCAA football in 2016, finished second in the 110-meter hurdles at the USATF New York City Grand Prix on Saturday with a mark of 13.04 seconds. Allen made the Philadelphia Eagles practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":394316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2380,10217,10216,10214,10215,2211],"class_list":["post-428041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-devon-allen","tag-devon-allen-110m-hurdle","tag-devon-allen-4th-fastest","tag-devon-allen-hurdle","tag-eagles-devon-allen","tag-nfl-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}