{"id":494878,"date":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:39:06","slug":"oregons-kenyon-sadiq-runs-fastest-40-by-tight-end-since-at-least-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494878\/","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":494879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[68019,4687,172712,8305,6257,99],"class_list":["post-494878","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\/494878","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=494878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}