{"id":58566,"date":"2022-04-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=58566"},"modified":"2022-04-01T02:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:24:38","slug":"jetnation-2022-nfl-draft-prospect-profile-kavyon-thibodeaux-edge-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2022\/04\/01\/jetnation-2022-nfl-draft-prospect-profile-kavyon-thibodeaux-edge-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"JetNation 2022 NFL Draft Prospect Profile: Kavyon Thibodeaux, EDGE, Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kayvon Thibodeaux<\/strong>
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EDGE, Oregon, #5<\/h2>\n

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Measurables<\/h3>\n

Height: 6050<\/span><\/p>\n

Weight: 254<\/span><\/p>\n

Hand Size: 0968<\/span><\/p>\n

Arm Size: 3318<\/span><\/p>\n

Wingspan: 7968<\/span><\/p>\n

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2022 NFL Scouting Combine<\/h3>\n

40-Yard Dash: 4.58<\/span><\/p>\n

Vertical Jump: —<\/span><\/p>\n

Broad Jump: —<\/span><\/p>\n

3-Cone Drill: —<\/span><\/p>\n

Bench Press: —<\/span>
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Film Study<\/h3>\n

Games Watched: USC 2020 (Pac-12 CG), Iowa State 2020, Fresno State 2021, Cal 2021, UCLA 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • First-Step Explosiveness: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Bend\/Flex: +<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Length: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Hand Power\/Moves: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Techniques: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Run Defense: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Strength: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Motor: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Versatility: ++<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Football IQ: ++<\/span>
    \n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Notes<\/h3>\n
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    • Love playing chess, keeps a board in his trunk<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Also enjoys pottery<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Combine: 3rd-best DL 10 Yard Split (1.59)<\/span>
      \n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Summary<\/h3>\n

      Kayvon Thibodeaux was a 5-star athlete, and #2 overall player in California entering college. A three-year starter at Oregon, he amassed 35.5 TFLs and 19 sacks, 7 PDs and 3 FFs over 30 games in his career. His first-step explosiveness is top of the class, generating a ton of spring out of his stance. He has a good, not great, bend to get around the tackle\u2019s outside shoulder, and possesses the length (33 \u215b\u201d arms) to out leverage blockers at the point of attack. The best positions to play him are the 5-technique (outside shoulder of the tackle), or the wide\u20139, famously used in New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh\u2019s defense. Thibodeaux has a range of pass rush moves, including a long arm rush, push\/pull, two-hand swipe, and ghost move. While draft analysts have knocked him for his effort\/motor, it\u2019s something I did not observe in my study of him. Thibodeaux is a 3-down player, capable of producing against the run or pass, specifically as a pass rusher on 3rd down. He can play with his hand in the dirt, but can also play as a stand up rusher, which allows him to play in both the 4-3 and 3-4 defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

      There are rumors that Kayvon Thibodeaux may end up sliding on night one of the 2022 NFL Draft, and if he is still available when the Jets are on the clock at 4, they would likely be the team to end said slide. Robert Saleh is known for his emphatic love for pass rushers, and New York needs to add more compliments to the defensive line unit already consisting of Carl Lawson and John Franklin-Myers. Thibodeaux will finish as EDGE1 and my #1 overall player, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if teams around the league felt the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Kayvon Thibodeaux EDGE, Oregon, #5   Measurables Height: 6050 Weight: 254 Hand Size: 0968 Arm Size: 3318 Wingspan: 7968   2022 NFL Scouting Combine 40-Yard Dash: 4.58 Vertical Jump: — Broad Jump: — 3-Cone Drill: — Bench Press: — Film Study Games Watched: USC 2020 (Pac-12 CG), Iowa State 2020, Fresno State 2021, Cal 2021, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":58583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/USATSI_17836270_168398080_lowres-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-feC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58584,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58566\/revisions\/58584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}