{"id":494747,"date":"2026-02-28T02:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494747\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:05:07","slug":"ohio-states-lorenzo-styles-jr-runs-fastest-40-by-a-safety-since-at-least-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494747\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State&#8217;s Lorenzo Styles Jr. runs fastest 40 by a safety since at least 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; The Styles family is taking over the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine.<\/p>\n<p>One day after his brother, <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>, turned in a tremendous all-around workout, Ohio State safety <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/lorenzo-styles-jr\/32005354-5952-6036-9e7f-8e7cf45228f6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Styles Jr.<\/a> made his own mark by running a scalding official time of 4.27 seconds in the 40-yard dash &#8212; the fastest time by a combine safety since at least 2003 &#8212; on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare for a safety to lead the pack among the defensive backs in the 40, but Styles was up to the challenge. Missouri CB <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/toriano-pride-jr\/32005052-4941-1603-889c-a4d79c14875d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toriano Pride Jr.<\/a> paced the CB group with an impressive 4.32-second time.<\/p>\n<p>Styles opted not to perform the broad jump, but he registered a strong vertical-jump number of 39 inches, putting him close to the top of the leaderboard in that drill, too.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Styles, Lorenzo&#8217;s Ohio State teammate the past three seasons, was <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/sonny-styles-generates-huge-buzz-with-2026-nfl-scouting-combine-performance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the combine headliner on Thursday<\/a> with a showcase performance in the jumping and running drills, as well as in the positional work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; The Styles family is taking over the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine. One day after his brother,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68019,4687,172712,8305,6257,99],"class_list":["post-494747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-analysis","tag-combine-draft","tag-draft","tag-no-minute","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494747","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=494747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}