The Commanders are adding an athletic freak to their defence.
Washington selected Ohio State’s Sonny Styles with the seventh pick in the NFL Draft on Thursday.
Styles wowed all at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis a few months ago, where he set multiple testing records.
The six-foot-five, 244-pound linebacker logged the highest vertical jump among players over six-foot-four and 240 pounds at the combine since 2003, recorded the fourth-best broad jump of any linebacker ever, and became the first since 2003 to run a sub-4.50 40-yard dash, record a vertical of 40-plus inches and a broad jump of 11-plus feet at 230-plus pounds.
Styles is the second Ohio State defender off the board, after Arvell Reese went fifth to the Giants.