PLAYER PROFILE
Height: 6-5
Weight: 325
College: Notre Dame
Class: Senior
TRAITS BREAKDOWN
SIZE/PHYSICAL TRAITS (5/5)
- Thick, sturdy frame
- Wide body
- Long arms (33 3/4″)
PASS BLOCKING (29/30)
- Great at sustaining blocks
- Excellent at anchoring against power rushers; immovable
- Allowed just 5 quarterback pressures in 2017 per PFF
RUN BLOCKING (19/20)
- ELITE run blocker
- Plays with leverage; fires out of stance with low pad level
- Plays through the whistle
- Excels as a drive blocker; keeps legs driving after engaging with defender; great finisher
- Excellent as a seal blocker
- Athletic enough to pull and execute zone concepts
- Will occasionally whiff on blocks when pulling to the edge on outside zone concepts
TECHNIQUE (13.5/15)
- Stays square to the line of scrimmage and doesn’t get overextended
- Maintains proper pad level
- Shoots hands inside quickly
- Hands can get a little wide at times
MOVEMENT SKILLS (12/15)
- Good athleticism for size
- Decent speed with fluid open field movement
- Good footwork, agility, and lateral movement
AWARENESS/BLITZ RECOGNITION (15/15)
- Outstanding awareness as a run and pass blocker
- Very good at recognizing blitzes and stunts
- Keeps head on a swivel to locate threats to the quarterback
- Great at executing combo blocks
VERDICT
NFL COMPARISON: Steve Hutchinson
OVERALL GRADE: 93.50/100.00 — TOP 10 — ELITE; perennial Pro Bowler with All-Pro potential
