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.
