{"id":907201,"date":"2026-06-01T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/907201\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:12:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:12:24","slug":"steelers-rookie-gennings-dunker-adjusting-to-seeing-a-lot-faster-nfl-players-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/907201\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers rookie Gennings Dunker adjusting to seeing &#8220;a lot faster&#8221; NFL players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/pittsburgh\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Steelers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Steelers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steelers<\/a> rookie guard Gennings Dunker hasn&#8217;t put the pads on for an NFL practice yet, but he&#8217;s already noticing differences between college and pro football players.<\/p>\n<p>Dunker said that just from his brief experiences at the Steelers&#8217; non-contact Organized Team Activities, he&#8217;s already recognizing that NFL speed is different. Dunker says he&#8217;ll have to adjust to blitzing NFL linebackers who are more athletic than the ones he saw during his college career as a three-year starter at Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are a lot faster than college linebackers,\u201d Dunker said. \u201cThey\u2019re pretty quick, so maybe taking a little bit different angles because they\u2019re definitely a lot better athletes than me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Steelers made offensive line a priority in the 2026 NFL draft, selecting tackle Max Iheanachor in the first round before adding Dunker in the third. They&#8217;ll be counting on their young offensive lineman making a quick adjustment to NFL speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steelers rookie guard Gennings Dunker hasn&#8217;t put the pads on for an NFL practice yet, but he&#8217;s already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[3365,7,1892,34761,6,426,7215],"class_list":["post-907201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-college-career","tag-football","tag-football-players","tag-gennings-dunker","tag-nfl","tag-steelers","tag-the-steelers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116675736174000906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907201","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=907201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}