Kingsley
Enagbare.
Kingsley
Enagbare.
South Carolina· 6'4"· 258 lb· 4.87s 40
Enagbare is a 6-foot-3 3/4, 258-pound edge defender who wins with length and leverage. The 34 3/4-inch arms and 6-foot-11 wingspan let him stack a tackle at arm's length, read the play and disengage, which is why he holds up on early downs rather than being a pure situational rusher.
As a pass rusher he is a power player. He converts speed to power, walks tackles into the pocket with a long-arm and finishes with the effort that produced eleven quarterback hurries as a senior. What he does not have is first-step burst: a 4.87 forty and a 1.72 ten-yard split are below the line for the position, and a 7.51 three-cone limits how tight he can turn the corner. The three forced fumbles as a junior show he attacks the ball once he arrives.
A four-man front that plays him as a base defensive end on early downs and lets him rush with power from a three-point stance on passing downs.
Year 1: rotational edge who plays run downs. Ceiling: starting base defensive end who sets the edge and adds six to eight sacks.
A speed-rush system that asks him to win the corner with burst and bend on every third down.
Length and effort keep him on the field even in the weeks the sacks do not come.
Kingsley Enagbare | South Carolina EDGE | 2021 Highlights
Senior-season cut-up showing his edge setting and long-arm rush.
Kingsley Enagbare highlights
Pre-draft reel of his South Carolina career.
Kingsley Enagbare vs Georgia 2021
Every snap against the eventual national champion, his toughest matchup of the year.
Enagbare grew up in Suwanee, Georgia and transferred from Peachtree Ridge to Hapeville Charter Academy as a junior, where he was named the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Class AA Defensive Player of the Year. He enrolled early at South Carolina and the staff immediately moved him inside to defensive tackle during spring practice.
The move back outside is what made him a prospect. He played twelve games as a freshman in 2018 with 20 tackles, three tackles for loss and a sack, then returned to defensive end as a sophomore for 27 tackles, seven tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks. His junior season was the breakout: eight games, 30 tackles, seven tackles for loss, six sacks and three forced fumbles, first-team All-SEC from the coaches and second-team from the Associated Press. The senior year brought more tackles and fewer sacks — 44 tackles, seven tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, eleven quarterback hurries and two pass breakups in twelve games.
Four years, 121 tackles, 24 tackles for loss and fifteen sacks, with the production peaking a year before the draft rather than in it. The testing confirmed the concern about burst. Green Bay took him 179th overall as a developmental power rusher.
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Length
34 3/4-inch arms and a 6-foot-11 wingspan, the tools to keep offensive tackles off his frame and control the edge.
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Power conversion
long-arms tackles into the backfield and collapses the pocket rather than relying on speed around the corner.
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Run defense
sets a firm edge on early downs, which is why he never came off the field as a two-down liability in the SEC.
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Ball awareness
three forced fumbles as a junior and eleven quarterback hurries as a senior, finishing plays once he arrives.
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Versatility
played defensive tackle as a freshman before moving outside, with reps at multiple alignments across four seasons.
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First-step burst
a 4.87 forty and 1.72 ten-yard split are below the standard for an edge rusher and show up as late get-offs.
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Bend
a 7.51 three-cone means he cannot flatten the arc, so tackles ride him past the quarterback on the speed rush.
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Declining sack rate
six sacks as a junior fell to 4.5 as a senior, the wrong direction in the season teams evaluate most.
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Rush plan
leans heavily on the long-arm and effort without a reliable inside counter when the first move is stopped.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.87sp50
- Vertical
- 36.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 117inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | South Carolina | 12 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2019 | South Carolina | 12 | 27 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | South Carolina | 8 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | South Carolina | 12 | 44 | 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Career | — | 44 | 121 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Season lines come from the Sports-Reference defensive log with bowl games included in 2018 and 2021, and they sum exactly to the career row: 121 tackles, 24 tackles for loss, fifteen sacks, four pass breakups, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery across 44 games. cfbstats independently confirms the 2021 season at 44 tackles, seven tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks, and credits him with eleven quarterback hurries that year. The zeros in the pass breakup and forced fumble columns are verified absences in those seasons, not placeholders.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Power-based edge who holds up against the run and produces steady mid-single-digit sack totals.
Late-round edge who grows into a full-time starter and earns a substantial second contract.
Long defensive end whose length flashes but whose lack of burst keeps the rush production modest.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Green Bay got four full seasons out of a fifth-round pick, and every one of them mattered. Enagbare signed his rookie deal on May 6, 2022, played all seventeen games with seven starts and recorded his first sack on Zach Wilson in Week 6. The rookie line read 31 tackles, three sacks, five tackles for loss and three pass breakups.
He never missed a game after that. Seventeen appearances in 2023 with four starts, 37 tackles, two sacks and eight tackles for loss; seventeen more in 2024 with seven starts and a career-best 4.5 sacks and 39 tackles; seventeen again in 2025 with 39 tackles and two sacks. Across four years: 68 regular season games, 21 starts, 146 tackles, 11.5 sacks and three postseason appearances. The market agreed with the tape — the Jets signed him to a one-year, $10 million contract on March 12, 2026. A fifth-round edge who plays 68 straight games and then commands eight figures in free agency is a pick that returned several times its cost.