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Tom Brady is known for a lot of things on the football field, but one thing he has never been known for though is his speed.

Brady's lack of speed has basically been a running joke since February 2000, when he stumbled and bumbled his way to a 5.28 40-yard dash at the NFL combine.  

Brady has clearly been toying with us for the past 15 years. As it turns out, he actually is kind of fast -- and we know that thanks to the NextGen stats that the NFL has been releasing every week. 

One of the things tracked by the NFL's NextGen stats is player speed. For the first 12 weeks of the season, the NFL never got a chance to track Brady's speed because he was never moving more than 3-5 yards per play.

That changed Sunday against the Eagles when Brady caught a pass from Danny Amendola for a 36-yard gain.

So how fast did Brady run?

Brady went half-cheetah on the Eagles and hit 16.96 mph, which made him the THIRD-FASTEST RECEIVER in the game. A total of 14 players caught at least one pass in the game, which means Brady had a faster speed than 11 other guys. 

Obviously, the more room you have to run, the faster you can go, so Brady had a small advantage over several players, but not many. A total of 10 guys in the game caught a pass that went for 12 or more yards, which means they had some room to run. 

Brady's calculated speed was faster than guys like Darren Sproles, Riley Cooper, James White and Brandon LaFell. 

For those of you who call Brady the GOAT, you might have to think of a new acronym because goats can't run that fast.

So, to rehash, Brady is faster than everyone and he has more receiving yards in 2015 than Dwayne Bowe, who's being paid $6 million by the Browns to catch footballs this year.  

Tom Brady is a speed demon. (Fox)
Tom Brady is sneaky fast. (USATSI)