Broderick
Washington Jr..
Broderick
Washington Jr..
Texas Tech· 6'2"· 305 lb
"A four-year Texas Tech starter with no flash and no holes in the run game, drafted by the one organization that has always known exactly what to do with that player."Pre-draft read
Washington is a low-center, run-first interior defender built to hold the point. At 6-2 and 315 he plays with natural leverage, anchors against down blocks and keeps his frame clean enough to control a gap without getting displaced. He was a four-year contributor at Texas Tech in a program that had him play a lot of snaps against Big 12 spread rushing games.
The pass rush is functional, not a selling point. He generated 8.5 sacks across four seasons, mostly through effort, push and late pressure rather than a refined move set. He is heavy-handed and strong but average as a bender and a mover, which caps him as a two-down base body who comes off the field in obvious passing situations unless the rush plan uses him as a bull.
Multiple front that plays heavy on early downs and asks interior linemen to two-gap and occupy blockers
Year 1 rotational run-down interior defender; ceiling is a long-term base starter who plays 40 percent of snaps and never comes off the field on third-and-short
An attacking one-gap front that asks every interior lineman to win as a pass rusher on passing downs
Baltimore's front is the exact environment this profile needed, and the fit is why he is still there.
Texas Tech DL Broderick Washington Highlight Reel - 2019 Season
Senior-season cut-up showing the anchor, hand usage and pursuit that defined his tape.
Broderick Washington Mic'd Up
Sideline and in-game footage from his Texas Tech career.
National Signing Day: Broderick Washington
Recruiting-day feature on the interior lineman who became a four-year starter.
Washington started as a true freshman contributor in 2016 and never left the rotation, finishing with 138 tackles and 8.5 sacks across 37 career games at Texas Tech. His production climbed steadily, 14 tackles as a freshman, 44 as a sophomore, 41 as a junior, then 39 tackles with four tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks as a senior anchoring the interior.
The tape was consistent rather than explosive. He held up against double teams, played hard through the whistle and gave Texas Tech a dependable nose presence in a conference built to run away from him. What he never did was flash the disruption that gets interior defenders drafted early: no season with more than three sacks, no signature game as a pass rusher, no high-end athletic testing to sell the projection.
Boards had him as a late-round run-stuffer, the kind of player a good defensive line room develops into a rotational piece. Baltimore, which has built its front out of exactly those bodies for a decade, took him at 170 to compete behind Brandon Williams and Calais Campbell.
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Anchor at the point
Plays with natural leverage at 6-2, 315 and absorbs double teams without giving ground on inside runs.
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Four-year production
138 tackles over 37 games at Texas Tech, contributing from his true freshman season through a senior year as the interior anchor.
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Hand strength
Heavy hands to shock and shed offensive linemen, which lets him stack a blocker and still make the tackle in his gap.
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Motor
Plays through the whistle and chases down the line of scrimmage, a big part of how he accumulated pressure without an advanced rush plan.
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Gap discipline
Rarely gets pulled out of his assignment by misdirection, a reliability trait that translates immediately to a rotation role.
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Pass rush
8.5 sacks in four college seasons with no move set beyond a bull rush, limiting him to early downs in most schemes.
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Athletic ceiling
Average bender and mover for the position; he does not win with quickness off the snap or redirect well in space.
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Penetration
Built to hold and occupy rather than shoot gaps, which caps his tackle-for-loss production against zone-run teams.
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Impact snaps
No signature dominant game on tape, so the projection rests entirely on being reliable rather than being disruptive.
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| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
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| 2016 | Texas Tech | — | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Texas Tech | — | 44 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | Texas Tech | — | 41 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Texas Tech | 12 | 39 | 2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Career | — | 37 | 138 | 8.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Season tackle, sack and pass-breakup lines come from ESPN's college page; career games (37), tackles for loss (12) and the fumble recovery come from StatMuse. Per-season games started and tackles for loss are not published for 2016-18 and are left unset rather than zero-filled.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Heavy interior body who holds the point and plays a defined early-down role for years.
Low-leverage Ravens nose who built a decade-long career on run defense alone.
Late-round Ravens interior lineman who flashed briefly and never held a long-term rotation spot.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Baltimore did what Baltimore does with defensive linemen. He played eight games as a rookie with two assisted tackles, grew into 14 games and a sack in 2021, then became a genuine starter in 2022: 17 games, nine starts, 49 tackles and six passes defensed on a front that finished among the league's best against the run. He has stayed in the rotation ever since, with 16 games and two sacks in 2023, 15 games and two more in 2024, and through seven seasons he sits at 75 games, 22 starts, 114 tackles, six sacks and 10 passes defensed, all with the Ravens.
That is a clean win for a fifth-round pick. He was drafted to be a run-down body in a front that values them, and he became one, signing a second contract and holding a role on a perennial playoff defense. The pass-rush ceiling never arrived and it was never supposed to. The value was durability and fit: he does the job the Ravens drafted him to do, and he has done it longer than most players taken around him lasted in the league.