Welcome back to the PFF NFL show, Trevor Sykima and Max Chadwick back again with you guys to recap what's happening in Indianapolis to the 2026 scouting combine.

Today, talk about defensive backs and tight ends, recapping the day that was yesterday for them on the field, the on the field drills, the athletic testing, all that great stuff. We'll not only talk about the days that they had, but also we'll talk about what it means, where these guys are getting drafted, where's the stock updates here. Of course, we'll do the post-combine mock for you guys on Monday, but give you a little bit of sneak peek at some hints of what could be that movement on the mock draft. Max, do it we're doing great trav there are some historic performances that we got from the tight ends and defensive backs yesterday at the nfl scout and combat so i can't wait to bring it all down with you today yeah i mean let's just start with it let's kick it off with kenyon sedique and eli stowers the two tight ends who uh like you mentioned historic and it feels like we've used that word historic a couple of times here already. And we're only two days into the testing here. But it's kind of the positions that you would think would have the ability to be historic. I mean, when you look at edge rushers and pass rushers, you know, linebackers or guys who are playing on the line of scrimmage. And these guys, it feels like they're just getting more and more athletic every single year. And so those guys standing out yesterday, Sonny Stiles, Arvel Reese, obviously was a lot of fun to watch. But then you get into today, yeah, or yesterday, excuse me, where, yeah, the defensive backs, these guys are generally flying pretty fast. We had a lot of fast defensive backs as well.

But tight end is really that position in that group of guys that that's really the evolution of sort of what's happening in football right now is how can you utilize tight ends in a variety of different ways.

And it really comes down to how athletic these guys are.

The more athletic they are,

the more creative you get to be. And when you look at Kenyon Sadiq, we've talked about him

as tight end one basically since the beginning of the summer before the college football season

even began. He was on Bruce Feldman's freak list. And so it's not like we didn't expect him

to be athletic, but still, it's fun to marvel at what

was this day for Kenyon, Sadiq, the Oregon tight end, six foot three, two hundred and

forty one and a half inch arms, ten inch hands.

But then when we got to the athletic drills on the field, 4.3940 yard dash 1.5,

10 yards split, a 43 and a half inch vertical, which was the record

tight end at the combine. And then Eli Stowers did his jump a few minutes later, but broad jumps

over 11 feet, 11 feet one inch as well.

So crazy day for Kenyon Sadiq. I know we expected it, Max, but it's still awesome to see him actually go out there and do it. Yeah, it was expected, but it was also needed for Kenyon Sadiq. I feel like there's a lot of people on Twitter recently saying, I don't know about Kenya Sizek. Is he worth a first round pick or not? he showed, hey, this is why I'm a first-round pick in the draft,

because I'm a freak show of an athlete.

He mentioned before drive that 4-3-940, third fastest ever for a tight end behind only Matt Jones and of course Vernon Davis as well.

In fact, next-gen stats actually said he had 23.24 miles per hour on his 40-yard dash. That's the exact same top speed as Jemir Gibbs had on his 40-yard dash when he ran at the combine as well. We mentioned the second highest vertical jump ever for a tight end. Third best broad jump ever for a tight end. I saw someone tweet out that Kenyon Sadiq had a faster 10-yard split than Deshawn Jackson, a faster 40-time than O'Dell Beckham Jr., a higher vertical jump than Julio Jones, and a longer broad jump than Andre Johnson.

Just an absolute freak show performance from Kenyon Stig.

Again, we knew he was an elite athlete, but he showed he's an historic athlete for tight end. He's going to be now solidified a first round pick in this draft. So that sort of brings up the question, because we'll talk about Stowers here in a second, but with Sadiq, below a 70 receiving grade this season, it was a 69.0 receiving grade from him in a year where we really thought that he was going to stand out a little bit more. Now, the yards per route run, it was 1.67, if I remember correctly, which when you compare that to wide receivers in college football, they might have, you know, they might be in the twos, sometimes even in the low threes. One point six seven doesn't look like a lot. Before the tight end position, it is actually quite a bit. What do we do with this, though? Because when I watch Kenyon Sadieke, I think that this is a player who showed great flashes as a wide receiver. He showed that he has the ability to block, although he even said himself at the podium. You know, he could be a little bit better at the point of attack. But hey, you know, he's 241 pounds. He's sitting here at 255, 260, 265, like some of these tight ends are who you feel good about or better about, I should say, on the line of scrimmage. The thing with Sadiq to me is that it's always all been there. Like, you talk about a five tool prospect in baseball, a guy who brings everything to the table. I mean, that's what Kenyon Sadiq does.

You can't ask for a better ball of clay to be able to mold from a player who could play the tight end position. But it's still not quite there for him yet. And when I was watching him a little bit in the middle of the season, part of me, now I don't

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