Kiper said Sadiq has also “wowed everybody over with his football IQ” in team meetings.<\/p>\n
He also just recently turned 21 years old, making him one of the younger players in this year’s draft class. In a draft full of older prospects, Sadiq is a younger player with room to grow.<\/p>\n
“Sadiq is a weapon. I always say, weapons equal winning,” Kiper said, declaratively saying he’s worthy of pick No. 14.<\/p>\n
“He would be that good. He really would be, because he’s such an athlete. He’s got a great attitude. He’s going to keep getting better and better because he’s such a young player. He’s a young, developing star. You can move him around. He’s one of those chess pieces. \u2026 He’s certainly one of the top 13 or 15 players in this year’s draft.”<\/p>\n
The Ravens used Isaiah Likely in a similar way, creating a formidable tandem with Mark Andrews. With Likely now in New York with John Harbaugh, Baltimore could add a premier and versatile target for Jackson.<\/p>\n
“There will be tight ends still available in the sixth, seventh round that have no business still being available on the board,” Brugler said. “<\/p>\n
“But with Sadiq, you’re talking about a guy that’s 6-3, 240 pounds who ran a 4.39 in the 40-yard dash, 43.5-inch vertical [jump]. The athleticism matches what’s on the tape. His ability to work the seam, get open, and be a mismatch player.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiper said Sadiq has also “wowed everybody over with his football IQ” in team meetings. He also just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[34345,115868,4955,184,117,2282,19,7,781,891,20472,28626,6,169,1049],"class_list":{"0":"post-868525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-2026-draft","9":"tag-2026-draft-news","10":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","11":"tag-baltimore","12":"tag-baltimore-ravens","13":"tag-baltimoreravens","14":"tag-draft","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-general","17":"tag-homepage-latest-headlines","18":"tag-inline-news","19":"tag-kenyon-sadiq","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-ravens","22":"tag-ryan-mink"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116421145179633584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868525","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=868525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}