Gennings Dunker saw Alyssa Liu's striped look and raised her one incinerator-red, gorgeous mullet. He saw Jack Hughes's missing tooth become the stuff of legend and said, What if I grew a mustache that looked a skid mark on the road to hell? The flow is well-groomed, lustrous, and looks like a gasping sandworm when he runs. It's amazing.
He looked like the rare interior guy whose movement skills popped straight off the bat. He put in an impressive 5.02s forty yard time plus an explosive 32" vertical (both 94th percentile), and then he repeatedly stood out in the drills. The on-field activity was the separator with Bisontis, his pass-pro sets looked natural for a player with tackle experience, so the workout read like a plug-and-play starter.
If I had to play a game today or tomorrow, I feel like I could go out there and get it done. My whole focus towards my rehab process has been getting to this point, being healthy enough to have the chance to put myself out there and throw. I'm really excited to go out there on Saturday and just cut it loose.
Styles's 43½-inch vertical jump was the highest by an off-ball linebacker at the combine since 2003 and the second-highest by any linebacker in that span behind Cameron Wake's 45½-inch jump in 2005. At 6-foot-5, 244 pounds, Styles, rated No. 7 on ESPN insider Mel Kiper Jr.'s big board, also had a 4.46 clocking in the 40-yard dash to go with an 11-foot-2-inch broad jump.
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