Lighter Michigan Dt Kenneth Grant establishes goals for 2025 nfl combine

Indianapolis-One of the best outstanding moments of Kenneth Grant during his three-year career in Michigan came against a Top 10 Penn State team in 2023.

Nittany Lions corridor, Kaytron Allen, crossed a hole on the left side, eluded a supporter in persecution and had a wide green grass in front of him to run. But Grant, a 6 -foot 3 defensive Towle that appeared in 339 pounds that season, tracked it in a total sprint to deny a great gain and potentially save a touchdown.

Grant spoke at the NFL Scouting combines Wednesday and said he hopes to show a similar speed in the 40 -yard race on Thursday to help him solidify him as a first round selection.

“Simply be able to move the lateral line on the margin,” he said about the use of his athletics for his advantage. “Many boys, that’s what we fight for, just selling, making plays. That is what you want in the advertisement line. “

Grant said he has dropped to 332 pounds after playing most of the 2024 season in 345. He hopes to register 40 times in the range of 4.8 seconds.

“I feel definitely better,” he said. “Agile, faster, more, more, as stronger.”

The two-time All-Big Ten selection also expects to reach more than 30 repetitions in the Banking Press, a brand only a defensive liner hit the 2024 harvester.

“I think I am more athletic than some of these guys,” Grant said about what makes him highlight in what is considered a deep draft class along the defensive line. “A lot of good athletes in this class, but I am intelligent, I know a lot of football. I think that’s what stands out for me. “

Grant did not publish amazing numbers of sacks in Michigan: he had 6 1/2 in the last two seasons, but he is considered an elite delivery, similar to the teammate of Wolverines and his projected partner of First Round Mason Graham.

There are different opinions about Grant as a perspective, but NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah is a stop with the former Indiana three -star recruit. Jeremiah classifies Grant as the twenty -general player in the Draft and projected him to the Arizona cardinals in his last simulated draft last week. He believes that Grant has the opportunity to get attention to the harvester.

“He has the ability and tools to do some unique things, and he has not approached scratching the surface of his potential,” Jeremiah said at a telephone conference last week.

“You’re just going to see an athlete who is a monster. It is not yet a polished corridor. I think everything is facing him. I think, meanwhile, he is someone who is going to dominate with the race. He is going to eat blocks. “

In Michigan’s biggest games in the last two seasons, Grant always seems to appear. He had a sack in the National Championship of 2023 against Washington and had one of his best performances of his career against Ohio State in November, obtaining the greatest defensive rating of the team in a surprise of 13-10 in Columbus.

He and Graham dominated in the middle, helping to keep OSU to 77 yards on the floor and a total of 252 total yards.

“(The defensive coordinator winks Martindale) aligned me in that zero (technique), and I was eating the whole game, to be honest,” Grant said. “I was stopping the race quite well and I had the opportunity to hurry the pin, so I was a lot there.”