One of the SEC’s two freak pass rush defensive end/linebacker tweeners expected to show out at the NFL Combine did just that on Sunday.

With Missouri’s Shane Ray, a potential sub-4.5 guy, held out due to a toe injury, Kentucky’s Bud Dupree carried the SEC torch for athletic Combine testers. (Ray is expected to run at Missouri’s pro day.)

Dupree made 34.5 tackles for loss, including 21 sacks, his last three seasons with the Wildcats. Measured at 6-foot-4 and 269 pounds, he showed NFL executives and evaluators on hand in Indianapolis just how explosive he is, especially in his lower body.

Dupree’s unofficial 40-yard dash time of 4.57 seconds was faster than all but nine of the running backs, coming in just behind Auburn’s Cameron Artis-Payne, and ranked him just outside of the Top 10 among linebackers in the last five years.

Dupree also unleashed a 42-inch vertical leap, second in the last five years of the NFL Combine among linebackers. (Tennessee-Chattanooga linebacker Davis Tull bested Dupree by a half-inch in the drill on Sunday.)

The Wildcats product measured a standing broad jump of 11 feet, 6 inches, easily the best mark Sunday and second among linebackers in the last five years of the Combine. Dupree did not participate in on-field drills with the linebackers due to a groin injury.

Based on his measurements and Combine testing, the NFL Network’s computer compared him to last year’s No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney.

During the NFL Network broadcast, Mike Mayock and Charles Davis described Dupree as an inconsistent player at Kentucky, one that played too tall against the run and didn’t dominate as often as could be expected for a player with his physical ability. He “disappears” on occasion, they said.

Perhaps his predictable strong show of athleticism at the Combine will convince a team to buy into his potential and flash by selecting him with a second-round pick.