2026 NFL Draft Prospects: Offensive Tackles (OT)
Identifying the most consistent college offensive tackles with "above-the-line" scouting grades in the 2026 NFL Draft class.
The Top 300 Players in the 2026 NFL Draft
Caleb Downs, Jeremiyah Love, and Sonny Styles headline a deep 2026 NFL Draft class.
Brad Beatson
The Great Arm Length Debate
- 🦖 Short Arms
- Arm length ≥34" — The ideal arm length for offensive tackles based on historical testing date. Some teams consider 33" to be sufficient, while others are more lenient.
- Kicking inside Teams may want a tackle prospect to play guard or center if they don't meet the arm length threshold. However, tackles need sufficient traits to play guard (power) or center at the next level.
Injury Concerns
- ⛑️ Availability — Injury history collected from SIS and The Athletic
Top Offensive Tackle Prospects
POS RK Player Grade Scheme Badges OT1 Spencer Fano 84 Gap 🦖 OT2 Blake Miller 84 Balanced OT3 Kadyn Proctor 81 Balanced 🦖 OT4 Caleb Lomu 76 Gap 🦖 OT5 Monroe Freeling 75 Balanced ⛑️ OT6 Francis Mauigoa 74 Zone 🦖· ⛑️ OT7 Caleb Tiernan 74 Zone 🦖 OT8 Jude Bowry 64 Gap OT9 Max Iheanachor 61 Zone 🦖· ⛑️ OT10 Markel Bell 59 Zone OT11 Travis Burke 57 Zone OT12 Fa'alili Fa'amoe 56 Zone ⛑️ OT13 Aamil Wagner 54 Zone OT14 Kage Casey 53 Zone 🦖· ⛑️ OT15 Dametrious Crownover 52 Balanced OT16 Drew Shelton 50 Zone 🦖 OT17 Diego Pounds 49 Balanced 🦖 OT18 Austin Barber 45 Zone 🦖 · ⛑️ OT19 Alan Herron 43 Zone 🦖 OT20 Enrique Cruz Jr. 33 Zone
Scheme is tied to 2025 usage rates, with a balanced role meaning their office ran a little bit of everything.
Some of these lineman will end up playing in a meaningfully different scheme in the league, which could impact how quickly they earn consistent snaps on offense.
Raw Prospect Scores
- 🧰 Production Component
- Source: PFF Weekly Grades — Stresses the importance of game-to-game, play-to-play consistency while adjusting for variance. Accounts for every game played during the lineman's final two seasons in college.
- Apply Critical Minimum — Weekly grades below 60.0 cannot be smoothed over by two-year average. Instead, once the acceptable threshold for "below-the-line" grades has been crossed, the prospect's production grade is capped and trends toward more of a boom-bust profile.
- 🔬 Film Component
- Source: SIS Scouting Reports — Watch a minimum of 3-5 games per prospect and assign a grade, from 1 (reject) to 9 (rare), to each of their three critical traits and half-dozen or so positional factors. Assign a final grade that projects how the prospect will stack up at their position by the beginning of their second season in the NFL.
- Apply Critical Minimum — Mediocre traits cannot be smoothed over by average. Instead, once the acceptable threshold for "below-the-line" grades has been crossed, the prospect's scouting grade is capped and trends toward more of a boom-bust profile.
- ⚖️ Weighting the Two: 80% Prospect Score
- Position Specific — Some positions have stronger signal in production than film or vice versa and so they are individually weighted to reflect that.
- 60/20 Film — Offensive tackle is one of the more volatile positions from a statistical, production standpoint while film provides clearer signal.
Prospect Chips
- 🔵 Blue Chip Potential 75+ production & 75+ film
- 🟢 Solid Contributor — 75+ in prod. or film & 68+ in the other
- ⚪ Situation Dependent — Everyone else
Player Production Film Chip Spencer Fano 82.0 72.0 🟢 Blake Miller 77.9 71.0 🟢 Kadyn Proctor 79.2 84.6 🔵 Caleb Lomu 76.1 68.0 🟢 Monroe Freeling 75.4 68.4 🟢 Francis Mauigoa 77.8 83.5 🔵 Caleb Tiernan 78.3 66.0 ⚪ Jude Bowry 76.6 60.5 ⚪ Max Iheanachor 75.4 53.9 ⚪ Markel Bell 73.0 55.1 ⚪ Travis Burke 77.4 56.9 ⚪ Fa'alili Fa'amoe 74.0 63.9 ⚪ Aamil Wagner 76.0 47.5 ⚪ Kage Casey 80.3 49.6 ⚪ Dametrious Crownover 73.9 39.2 ⚪ Drew Shelton 72.0 39.2 ⚪ Diego Pounds 72.4 37.5 ⚪ Austin Barber 78.4 42.5 ⚪ Alan Herron 72.9 36.7 ⚪ Enrique Cruz Jr. Inc. Inc. ⚪
🦺Players with incomplete scores had missing data points and will be revisited after the draft. Bandit Football regrets the error.
Athleticism, Positional Value, Intagibles
- 🏅 Athleticism
- Source: Next Gen Stats — Assigns a 1-10 grade on athletic profile for every player at the Combine. In some cases, NGS estimates the scores if the prospect didn't test in Indianapolis or at their college pro day.
- RAS, MockDraftable, Football Sheets — I've added these sources to my database for future use. Many prospects had incomplete scores due to lack of testing numbers, so it made more sense to use NGS in this iteration of the model because every prospect ended up with a data point.
- 📊 Positional Value
- Source: Spotrac — Analyzing the rookie contract scale and how much guaranteed money each pick receives against the Top 100 cap hits in the NFL by position over the next three seasons. Takes into account the Top 10 highest paid players at their position and the relative cost savings a rookie contract could provide.
- Additive Bonus — Each player was scored on a 1-10 scale using the consensus big board as a guide for projected savings. Fernando Mendoza was the only player to receive a 10 because starting QBs make anywhere from $30-50 million per season. Other positions, like RB, TE, LB, and S were capped at a maximum 5 points.
- OT Positional Value
- 1st Rd: Top 15 pick — 9
- 1st Rd: Pro Bowl upside — 8
- 1st Rd: Reliable starter — 7
- 1st Rd: Situation dependent — 6
- 2nd Rounder — 5
- 3rd Rounder — 2
- Projected Day 3 Pick — 1
- 🌹🥀 Intangibles
- Source: Dane Brugler — The Beast prospect guide includes strengths and weaknesses for every player on the big board. Includes off-the-field concerns, quotes from scouts and coaches, and non-negotiable traits for the position.
- My Judgment — Each player was evaluated based on the additional information, including: injury history, work ethic, football iq, off-field concerns, and non-negotiables for their position. For quarterbacks, my non-negotiable is a willingness to take the hit in order to make a play.
Badges
- 💰 Positional Value — Prospect earned a 5.0 or higher based on the potential value of their rookie contract.
- 💎 Strong Character — Prospect assigned a 5.0 or higher in their intangible score.
- ⚠️ Investigate Further — Prospect assigned a -5.0 or worse in their intangible score.
Player Athleticism POS Value Intangibles Badges Spencer Fano 9.3 9.0 6.0 💰 💎 Blake Miller 9.1 7.0 7.0 💰 💎 Kadyn Proctor 7.7 7.0 0.0 💰 Caleb Lomu 8.6 7.0 4.0 💰 Monroe Freeling 9.1 8.0 1.0 💰 Francis Mauigoa 7.4 7.0 -4.0 💰 Caleb Tiernan 7.7 5.0 6.0 💰 💎 Jude Bowry 8.4 3.0 -1.0 Max Iheanachor 8.6 6.0 1.0 💰 Markel Bell 6.4 3.0 0.0 Travis Burke 7.2 2.0 -2.0 Fa'alili Fa'amoe 6.8 1.0 -2.0 ⚠️ Aamil Wagner 7.5 1.0 0.0 Kage Casey 6.7 3.0 2.0 Dametrious Crownover 7.2 4.0 1.0 Drew Shelton 7.7 2.0 2.0 Diego Pounds 7.5 2.0 3.0 Austin Barber 8.1 3.0 -5.0 ⚠️ Alan Herron 7.2 0.0 -1.0 Enrique Cruz Jr. Inc. Inc. Inc. Head back to the Big Board:
The Top 300 Players in the 2026 NFL DraftCaleb Downs, Jeremiyah Love, and Sonny Styles headline a deep 2026 NFL Draft class.Brad Beatson
Blake Miller broke his wrist during 2025 spring practices and it required surgery — "but he missed only one practice" (per The New York Times).
