{"id":428243,"date":"2023-03-03T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428243"},"modified":"2023-03-03T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T12:11:18","slug":"panthers-kancey-posts-fastest-40-yard-time-by-dt-since-2003","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/panthers-kancey-posts-fastest-40-yard-time-by-dt-since-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers&#8217; Kancey posts fastest 40-yard time by DT since 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p><span class=\"l_ecrd_txt_pln\">Pittsburgh Panthers defensive tackle\u00a0<\/span>Calijah Kancey ran an official 4.67-second 40-yard dash at the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine, the fastest time for a defensive tackle at the event since 2003.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Continuing to prove myself right. Also one of the best birthday gifts ever \ud83d\ude0e<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blessed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Blessed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eYbLFvgXaX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eYbLFvgXaX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Calijah Kancey (@Ckancey8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ckancey8\/status\/1631459214282436613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He topped Aaron Donald&#8217;s time of 4.68, which he posted in 2014, sparking another wave of comparisons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pitt DT Calijah Kancey officially ran a 4.67<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s the fastest time at the Combine for a DT since 2003 \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m9xr575XyV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/m9xr575XyV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Gridiron (@brgridiron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brgridiron\/status\/1631404927892303874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>The parallels between the two players are &#8212; on the surface, anyway &#8212; almost unavoidable. Both attended Pitt. Both are undersized defensive tackles. Both produced higher-than-typical sack totals for interior rushers. And both clearly are athletic marvels for their position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>Kancey (6-foot-1, 281 pounds) isn&#8217;t the same caliber prospect as Donald was nearly a decade ago, but he certainly has helped himself with his scorching running time.<\/p>\n<p>In the positional drills that followed, Kancey also moved more fluidly than many of his other D-line mates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nfl-c-body-part nfl-c-body-part--text\">\n<p>NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah rated Kancey as his No. 30 overall prospect entering the combine, describing him as a &#8220;a short, compact DT with rare twitch and explosion&#8221; who is &#8220;a very dynamic and disruptive presence along the interior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Panthers defensive tackle\u00a0Calijah Kancey ran an official 4.67-second 40-yard dash at the 2023 NFL Scouting Combine, the fastest time for a defensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17926],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He topped Aaron Donald's time of 4.68, which he posted in 2014","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428243"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428243"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}