As an adolescent running back, he and his seventh-grade team won a national flag football championship. In high school at wide receiver in Idaho, he was instrumental in leading his Skyline Grizzlies to three consecutive state titles, earning him the state’s Player of the Year title. By the end of a prolific collegiate career with the Oregon Ducks, he had never missed the postseason and had become the first tight end in the program’s history to take Big Ten Conference Tight End of the Year honors after making 51 single-season receptions, breaking the school’s record for that position. But his buzziest display of power thus far came at the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine, where he recorded the fastest 40-yard dash time for a tight end in the history of the annual pre-draft gauntlet.
Notably, he completed the feat while wearing VKTRY insoles—a piece of performance gear worn by more than two-thirds of the athletes at the combine. The shaped carbon fiber baseplate is designed to quite literally give wearers more spring in their step: Potential energy is stored when the athlete plants their foot, and when they propel their foot forward off the ground, the energy becomes kinetic as the insole snaps back to its original shape. VKTRY says that “PhD-led, peer-reviewed independent testing proves that VKTRY Insoles increase ground force by 8% and ground reaction force (aka explosiveness) by about 10%.” Aside from Sadiq, another VKTRY-equipped athlete, Cleveland Browns rookie Taylen Green, set quarterback combine records for the vertical jump and broad jump.
Read more about Kenyon's journey and how he set the TE 40-yard dash record at this year’s NFL Scouting Combine.
