We enter NFL Draft season with a LOADED 2025 roster of former Ducks chasing their dreams at the pro level, offering Oregon football a massive boost to recruiting and verified aspirations for pro development to incoming freshmen. Dillon Thieneman had a lights-out NFL Combine, running a stunning 4.35 40-yard dash, while Freakly Leeky (Malik Benson) was no slouch either (4.37, good enough for fourth best at wide receiver).
While Mr. FishDuck urges others to play now at BiggerZ for gaming fun, he paused to marvel at the Pro Day times, and how many Ducks have a shot at a free-agent contract with their great performances.
Still, one player was the clear standout, perhaps the one who entered the combine with the highest expectations and greatest spectacle.
Kenyon Sadiq was unstoppable in some stretches of the 2025-2026 season. (Photo by Max Unkrich)
Sadiq Soars Up Draft Boards
We all assumed Sadiq the beast would have an incredible NFL Combine, and he STILL blew us away. A 4.39 40-yard dash at 6’3″ and 241 pounds is absurd. Tacking on a 43’5″ inch vertical (which would have tied the TE record if it weren’t for Eli Stowers’s ridiculous 45.5″ vert).
For perspective, that’d place him as an immediate top-five athlete in the league at his position, joining Kyle Pitts and George Kittle as some of the most versatile weapons in the league. Unfortunately, his college production wasn’t on the same level. Numbers like these leave us all to wonder what could have been if his run-blocking duties had shifted more toward threatening as a vertical receiver in Will Stein’s offense throughout 2025. Maybe we’d be having a different conversation about Dante Moore right now.
Sadiq hovered around the mid-to-late first round in most projections, and now he’s shooting all the way up the early teens. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was the second or third skill player of the board behind Carnell Tate and Jeremiah Love.
What do you think? Where do you see Sadiq going? Which team and staff offer the best pairing for his skill set? Who’s another riser you could see be an immediate NFL contributor in the 2026-2027 season? Let us know in the FishDuck Forum with decorum.
GO DUCKS!
Alex Heining
Los Angeles, California
Top Photo By: Gary Breedlove
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Alex Heining is an Oregon alumni from the graduate class of 2021. After studying sports business and media studies, he has moved into the field of digital marketing as a copywriter and content manager in the Los Angeles area. Still, he loves his Ducks and goes to local high school games all over the Los Angeles and Orange County area to check out new recruits of the future (and a SoFi game or two with the pros). On any given Saturday, expect to find him doing martial arts, playing the guitar, or screaming at the tv over a missed holding penalty.