{"id":508836,"date":"2026-02-28T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:59:10","slug":"oregons-kenyon-sadiq-runs-fastest-40-by-tight-end-since-at-least-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/508836\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon’s Kenyon Sadiq runs fastest 40 by tight end since at least 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS — Oregon’s Kenyon Sadiq<\/a> ran the fastest 40-yard dash of any tight end at the NFL Scouting Combine since at least 2003, posting a blazing time of 4.39 seconds on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sadiq’s official time bested the previous mark of 4.40 seconds, set by Vernon Davis in 2006 and tied by Dorin Dickerson in 2010.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3 1\/8, 241-pound Sadiq was expected to be a standout during the workout portion of the event, and he started the night with a broad jump of 11-1. It was the highest mark of the 2026 combine among tight ends before Vanderbilt’s Eli Stowers<\/a> topped it a few minutes later with a jump of 11-3.<\/p>\n

Sadiq shined in the vertical leap, too, jumping 43 1\/2 inches, only to be outdone by Stowers shortly thereafter after he posted a jump of 45 1\/2 inches, the best mark by a TE since at least 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS — Oregon’s Kenyon Sadiq ran the fastest 40-yard dash of any tight end at the NFL Scouting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[17076,13449,64,63,190914,3263,593,19976,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-508836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-combine-draft","13":"tag-draft","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-no-minute","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}