Noah Lyles may have found the date for a potential race between him and Tyreek Hill.
The NFL’s 2025 Pro Bowl Games.
On his podcast, Beyond the Records, Lyles and fellow Olympic gold medalist co-hosts, Rai Benjamin and Grant Holloway, discussed the details of a potential Lyles-Hill race, along with Holloway saying he would also race a star NFL wide receiver, in D.K. Metcalf.
“Grant, would you race D.K. Metcalf?” Lyles asked. “Would you take him in a 40 [yard dash]?”
“Of course,” Holloway promptly answered, and then looked into the camera to say: “D.K., you probably don’t know me, I’m a huge fan. You’re on my fantasy team, so keep doing your thing.
“But hey, let’s do it man. If Noah’s gonna do Tyreek… look, I’ll take the undercard with you. I think it’d be good.”
Benjamin then suggested where these races could take place.
“I feel like it would be good to do it at the All-Star Weekend.”
Lyles let out a very suspicious and sly smile after that.
“I’m already giving too much information,” Lyles said. “The best I can say is, it’d be very Mike Tyson-Jake Paul type.”
“It’d be cool to do a cross-over at the Pro Bowl,” Benjamin suggested. “If you’re listening NFL execs, track cross-over at the Pro Bowl.”
The whole time, Lyles had a ‘I know something you don’t know’ smirk on his face.
Let the speculation begin.
The 2025 Pro Bowl Games will take place in Orlando, Florida on February 2nd.
A crossover between the men’s 100m Olympic gold medal champion, versus the NFL’s presumed fastest player, would be quite the spectacle.
It would almost assuredly draw higher ratings than the actual Pro-Bowl games themselves.
Lyles has previously hinted about racing Hill before, stating that he would only race the NFL star wide receiver on his own terms.
“I mean, if somebody wants to sponsor the event and we’re racing for millions of dollars and it’s on a track and we’re running 100 meters, then sure, we can race,” Lyles told NBC News.
“But it has to be legit. I’m not here to do gimmicks. You’re racing against a guy who has worked his whole life to get the title of ‘the world’s fastest man,’ and you’ve worked to be a great football player.
“You can’t just jump the line because you’re a great football player.”
It seems a Lyles-Hill race is a lot closer to happening than initially thought.
Presenting it as a massive Mike Tyson-Jake Paul type event, with undercards such as Holloway versus Metcalf, Christian Coleman versus Xavier Worthy, is a great way to do it.
Whether that’s realistic or not is another question.
Whether Lyles and Hill actually agree to race one another, is the main question.
There are lots of questions that need to be answered to make this work, but it seems that there are answers we just don’t know about yet.
