{"id":862391,"date":"2026-04-09T15:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862391\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:24:20","slug":"oregon-tight-end-kenyon-sadiqs-a-rare-athlete-bringing-plenty-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/862391\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon tight end Kenyon Sadiq&#8217;s a rare athlete, bringing plenty of options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Versatility is huge,&#8221; Sadiq said. &#8220;Being able to create explosive pass plays, but also being able to run the ball. It creates a lot of mismatches on the defensive side, whether they&#8217;re in nickel or base or whatever it is. So, I think if you have a great tight end or a couple of great tight ends, it really helps out your offense as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq caught 51 passes for 560 yards and an FBS-high (for tight ends) eight touchdowns. And that&#8217;s the kind of production that will attract attention, but as he enters the league, he&#8217;s looking for more from himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I mean, it just goes down to I&#8217;m willing to do whatever my team wants me to do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Production is one thing, but also being a great teammate as well. And I think I&#8217;ve done that. So one, just displaying my capabilities mentally, but also, the attributes I can bring to a team, not just snap count, but on special teams as well. So, all these attributes, if you look at snap count, you&#8217;re missing. So I do think I bring a lot of value to a team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Versatility is huge,&#8221; Sadiq said. &#8220;Being able to create explosive pass plays, but also being able to run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-862391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116375444732203611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}