{"id":493598,"date":"2026-02-27T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:18:08","slug":"sonny-styles-generates-huge-buzz-with-2026-nfl-scouting-combine-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493598\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Styles generates huge buzz with 2026 NFL Scouting Combine performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Ohio State&#8217;s <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/sonny-styles\/32005354-5952-6035-2123-fe49ff747b1d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Styles<\/a> put on a show at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday, posting breathtaking numbers in the jumping events and 40-yard dash.<\/p>\n<p>At 43 1\/2 inches, the 6-5, 244-pound linebacker had the highest vertical jump by any player 6-4 or taller and any player weighing 240 or more pounds at the combine since at least 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Styles&#8217; broad jump of 11-foot-2 wasn&#8217;t too shabby, either. It led all combine participants on Thursday and in recent history, was only topped by Jamie Collins (11-7 in 2013), <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/bud-dupree\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bud Dupree<\/a> (11-6 in 2015) and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/willie-gay-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willie Gay Jr.<\/a> (11-4 in 2020) among linebackers.<\/p>\n<p>Styles ran the 40-yard dash in 4.46 seconds, which tied his Buckeyes teammate <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/arvell-reese\/32005245-4549-6321-87d8-fa50318be80a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arvell Reese<\/a> for the fastest time of all the defensive linemen and linebackers who participated on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Styles is the only player to run a sub-4.5 40-yard dash with a vertical of 40+ inches and a broad jump of 11+ feet at 230 or more pounds since 2003, <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFL_Researcher\/status\/2027186029287940468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">per NFL Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Ohio State&#8217;s Sonny Styles put on a show at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[68019,172712,8305,349,6257,99],"class_list":["post-493598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-combine-draft","tag-draft","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}