Jon
Runyan Jr..
Jon
Runyan Jr..
Michigan· 6'4"· 306 lb· 5.08s 40
"A two-time first-team All-Big Ten left tackle who is built like a guard, Runyan wins with angles, processing and finish rather than with the length NFL teams demand on the edge."Pre-draft read
A technique-first blocker who plays from a compact, powerful base and wins with positioning rather than overwhelming length. In pass protection he sets with clean footwork, takes efficient angles to cut off the arc and rarely lets a rusher get him leaning. He processes stunts and games quickly and passes off twists without panic.
In the run game he is a finisher. He climbs to the second level under control, squares up linebackers in space and stays attached through the whistle. Hand placement is the inconsistency: he lets his strikes drift outside the frame and can be reset by a rusher with longer arms. The separating trait is football intelligence, the product of four years in a pro-style program and a household that lived the position.
Zone-heavy running offense that asks its guards to reach, climb and combo rather than to maul one-on-one in a gap scheme.
Year 1: sixth offensive lineman who competes at both guard spots. Ceiling: a decade-long starting guard on a playoff offensive line.
A power gap scheme that isolates its guards in phone-booth one-on-ones against nose tackles and asks them to win with length and raw anchor.
His college tackle tape is only useful as evidence of processing; the career lives inside.
Jon Runyan Film Breakdown
Rep-by-rep breakdown of his interior technique, angles and hand usage.
Michigan Offensive Tackle Jon Runyan at the 2020 NFL Combine
Combine session and interview during the pre-draft process.
Loungin with Howard: Michigan Jon Runyan Jr.
Conference feature on his development into a two-time All-Big Ten left tackle.
Runyan is a projection more than a pure evaluation. He started 26 games at Michigan, nearly all of them at left tackle, and was a first-team All-Big Ten pick by the coaches in both 2018 and 2019, sharing the program's top offensive lineman award. The projection almost every team wrote is the same: move him inside to guard, where his frame, angles and processing fit and where his arm length stops being a disqualifier.
The college résumé is deeper than the draft profile suggests. He arrived as a three-star recruit and did not start until his fourth year, then held the left tackle job for two full seasons in the Big Ten and against the best edge rushers on the schedule. He was one of four Michigan starting offensive linemen entering the 2020 draft, and inside the building he was regarded as the most reliable of the group. Against Ohio State in 2019 he had the assignment on Chase Young and held up.
The flags were physical rather than technical. At 6-4 and 306 pounds with short arms, he does not have the tackle dimensions teams insist on, and inconsistent hand placement compounded it. Evaluators projected him as a seventh-rounder or a priority free agent who would compete at guard. Green Bay took him at 192 with exactly that plan, and the fit with a zone-running offense was clean.
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Elite processing
He identifies stunts and twists before they develop and passes rushers off cleanly, which is the skill that most speeds a rookie onto the field.
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Angle discipline in protection
He takes efficient sets that cut off the arc and keep long rushers from getting to his edge despite his shorter arms.
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Finishes his blocks
He stays attached through the whistle and plays with the nastiness the position demands, especially on double teams inside.
- 04
Movement in space
He climbs to the second level under control, squares up linebackers and blocks well on the move for a 306-pound lineman.
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Position versatility and trust
Two-time first-team All-Big Ten at left tackle with the frame to slide to either guard spot on day one.
- 01
Short arms for tackle
His length falls below the NFL threshold on the edge, which forces the inside move and shrinks his positional value.
- 02
Inconsistent hands
His strikes drift outside the frame, letting defenders reset the rep and drawing holding risk against stronger rushers.
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Average athletic testing
A 5.08 forty and a 7.57 three-cone put him in the middle of the class, so he will not win reps on pure movement.
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Late developer
He did not start until his fourth college season, so the body of work is only two years deep at a position teams like to see proven.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.08sp50
- Vertical
- 30.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 107inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.57sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.69sp50
- Bench
- 24repp50
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Michigan | — |
| 2017 | Michigan | — |
| 2018 | Michigan | 13 |
| 2019 | Michigan | 12 |
| Career | — | 34 |
Five years at Michigan with a 2015 redshirt and letters in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Michigan lists his career total as 34 games with 26 starts, 25 of them at left tackle and one at right tackle. Game and start counts for 2016 and 2017, when he was a reserve, were not published individually and are left blank rather than estimated. Offensive linemen carry no statistical line beyond games and starts.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Same tackle-to-guard projection with a technique-first profile who sticks as a starter.
College tackle who moved inside and became a long-term high-end starting guard.
Michigan lineman without the length who never locked down an NFL role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Green Bay converted him to guard and the projection held. He played all 16 games as a rookie reserve in 2020, the first Packers offensive lineman drafted in the sixth round or later to appear in every game as a rookie since Mark Tauscher in 2000. He then became a full-time starter: 16 starts at left guard in 2021 without a single penalty, all 17 games in 2022 split between both guard spots on a line that ranked seventh in sacks allowed, and all 17 at right guard in 2023 while allowing two sacks. He never missed a game in four Green Bay seasons. The Giants signed him in March 2024 on a three-year, $30 million deal with $17 million guaranteed; he started all 13 games he played at left guard before an ankle injury ended his season, then started through 2025 and signed a two-year extension in September 2026 that runs through 2028.
In hindsight this is one of the best value picks of the sixth round. The pre-draft concern was never about his football; it was about whether a short-armed college tackle could hold up at all. Moving inside solved it immediately, and everything the evaluation praised, the processing, the angles, the finish, translated. A sixth-round pick who becomes a multi-year starter, gets paid $30 million in free agency and then extended again is a hit by any standard the position allows.