PLAYER PROFILE

Height: 6-3

Weight: 291

College: Alabama

Class: Senior

STRENGTHS

• Excellent hand usage — stacks and sheds blockers in the run game with ease, quick hands (push-pull, swim, rip, club)
• Great leverage — always plays with low pad level
• Good power — can ragdoll blockers or put them on skates with his bull rush, violent hands
• Disciplined plays contain, maintains run fits, sets the edge
• Great awareness
• Good tackler
• Good initial quickness — gets upfield with burst
• Great play recognition — quick to diagnose
• Versatility to play 3-technique, 5-technique, 4-3DE
• Holds up well against double teams
• Motor — finishes plays and hustles in backside pursuit
• Flexibility — can bend the edge a little as an outside rusher

WEAKNESSES

• Average pursuit speed — limits ability to make tackles on plays away from him

FINAL THOUGHTS

GRADE: 7.60/9.00 – TOP 10 – Future Pro Bowler, top 5-10 player at position

NFL COMPARISON: Fletcher Cox

PLAYER SUMMARY: Jonathan Allen is a versatile and technically sound defensive line prospect. On the interior, Allen wins with quickness against guards. Allen reminds me of Fletcher Cox as a scheme-versatile defensive lineman with the ability to hold the point as a 5-technique defensive end or 3-technique defensive tackle.