Isaiah
Wilson.
Isaiah
Wilson.
Georgia· 6'6"· 350 lb· 5.32s 40
"The biggest and youngest tackle in the class, a 350-pound run-game destroyer whose grade depended entirely on whether the environment that drafted him could hold him together."Pre-draft read
Enormous right tackle who played like a road grader in Georgia's gap-heavy run game. At 6-6 and 350 pounds with unusual thickness through the legs and hips, he moved defensive ends off the line on down blocks and buried defensive backs at the second level when he got there.
In pass protection he was a wall when he set on time, with the length and mass to stop a bull rush cold. The problems were speed of foot and consistency of technique: he overset against quickness, played tall out of his stance, and lost the rep when an edge rusher countered inside. He also carried weight that fluctuated. The signature was the raw power, a tackle whose best reps ended with a defender on the ground several yards from where the play started.
Gap and power run game with heavy play-action, the kind of condensed offense that hides pass-set limitations behind tight ends and chips.
Year 1: run-game right tackle in a play-action offense with help outside. Ceiling: a decade-long starting right tackle or a dominant guard.
Dropback passing offense that leaves him alone on an island against speed rushers on obvious passing downs every week.
The scheme fit in Tennessee was close to ideal, which is why the outcome had nothing to do with football.
Isaiah Wilson T Georgia
Pre-draft tackle reel from the two SEC starting seasons.
Isaiah Wilson Ultimate Highlights
Run-game displacement that produced the first-round grade.
Isaiah Wilson (American Football)
Career overview covering the Georgia tape and the professional aftermath.
Wilson came into the 2020 class as the biggest tackle in the draft and one of its youngest, a twenty-one-year-old redshirt sophomore with two seasons of SEC starting tape. He redshirted in 2017 after an early injury, started every game at right tackle in 2018, and earned second-team All-SEC honors in 2019 while playing eleven games with ten starts.
The traits were loud. He was a legitimate 350 pounds with the length and torque to dominate in the run game, and Georgia's offense gave him a heavy diet of down blocks and combination work that he won consistently. Tennessee, an offense built entirely around Derrick Henry and gap runs, reportedly considered trading up for him.
The file carried a warning label. The pass sets were unrefined, the weight needed managing, and the maturity questions were substantive enough that multiple teams downgraded him for them. He was suspended for the 2019 Sugar Bowl for a violation of team rules. Most evaluators graded him a top-forty player on tape with a wide range of outcomes depending on the environment that got him. The Titans took him 29th overall and trusted their own background work over the noise.
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Raw power
Moves defensive ends off the line on down blocks and generates real displacement in a gap-scheme run game.
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Anchor and mass
At a legitimate 350 pounds with long arms, he stops the bull rush cold when he sets on time.
- 03
Youth
Entered the league as a twenty-one-year-old redshirt sophomore, with two full seasons of SEC starting tape already behind him.
- 04
Second-level finishing
Buries defensive backs and linebackers when he climbs, playing through the whistle in the run game.
- 05
SEC production
Started every game in 2018 and earned second-team All-SEC honors in 2019 against the best edge rushers in college football.
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Foot speed
Oversets against quickness and cannot recover laterally, so inside counters beat him before he can reset his hands.
- 02
Pad level
Plays tall out of his stance, surrendering his leverage advantage and letting smaller rushers work under his pads.
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Conditioning
Weight fluctuated through his college career, an issue that compounds the existing concerns about lateral movement.
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Maturity flags
A team-rules suspension for the Sugar Bowl and pre-draft background concerns that several clubs weighted heavily.
Relative Athletic Score (Kent Lee Platte) benchmarks combine/pro-day numbers against every measured prospect at the position since 1987. 10.00 is elite; 5.00 is average.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.32sp50
- Vertical
- 29inp50
- Broad jump
- 110inp50
- Three-cone
- 8.26sp50
- Shuttle
- 5.07sp50
- Bench
- 26repp50
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Georgia | 13 |
| 2019 | Georgia | 11 |
| Career | — | 24 |
Tennessee Titans and Georgia athletics: second-team All-SEC in 2019 while playing eleven games with ten starts, and a full season of starts at right tackle in 2018. He redshirted in 2017 and that season is not listed because he recorded no participation. Offensive linemen do not carry statistical lines, so only games and starts are recorded.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Powerful, penalty-prone right tackle who starts for years without ever solving the speed rush.
The ceiling: a mountain of a right tackle whose mass and length make him a starter for a decade when the weight is managed.
The downside: elite physical tools and a first-round grade that never translate into sustained professional football.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
This became the shortest first-round career of the modern era. Wilson played one game as a rookie and took four snaps. The rest of 2020 was off-field: a trespass warning at Tennessee State, a September DUI arrest after a high-speed police chase, two stints on the reserve/COVID-19 list, a team suspension in December and a move to the reserve/non-football injury list. He posted and deleted a message saying he was done with the organization, and Tennessee traded him to Miami in March 2021 for a seventh-round pick. The Dolphins released him three days later after he arrived late for his physical and his onboarding and skipped workouts he had committed to. The Giants signed him to their practice squad that September, his hometown chance, without a regular-season appearance. He has not played in an NFL regular-season game since 2020.
The verdict is the definitive cautionary tale of the class. Tennessee's general manager said publicly the following February that the player who showed up in Nashville was not the player the team had spent months evaluating. Taylor Lewan, his teammate that season, later described tools he compared to Trent Williams. That is what makes this file sting: the ceiling was real and none of it reached a field. Four snaps for the 29th pick in the draft is the worst return in the round and one of the worst in the league's history.
Data note: Imported from Wikipedia 2020 NFL draft player selections table.