Logan
Stenberg.
Logan
Stenberg.
Kentucky· 6'6"· 317 lb· 5.30s 40
"Kentucky's Mr. Nasty, a 39-game starter and first-team All-SEC guard who buried people in the run game and tested at the very bottom of the class as an athlete."Pre-draft read
Stenberg is a mauler and he wants you to know it. At 6-6 and 327 pounds he finishes blocks to the ground, drives defenders past the whistle and talks while he does it, earning the nickname Mr. Nasty in Lexington.
His value is concentrated in the run game, where he generates real movement on down blocks and double teams and creates the displacement Kentucky's record-setting rushing attack was built on. In protection he is a different player. He is a tall guard who plays tall, and quicker interior rushers get under his pads before he resets, though his 2019 tape showed real improvement. The signature is power and temperament, a gap-scheme guard who wins by burying people rather than by moving his feet.
A gap and power running game built on down blocks, double teams and displacing defenders at the line of scrimmage.
Year 1 interior backup and short-yardage package blocker, with a ceiling as a multi-year starting guard in a run-first power offense.
A wide-zone offense that asks guards to reach defensive tackles and climb on the move against quick interior fronts.
Logan Stenberg AKA Mr Nasty | Make It Nasty Highlights
College cutup built around the finishing temperament that defined his scouting report.
Logan Stenberg Highlights | Detroit Lions 2020 NFL Draft
The team's own draft-day reel of his Kentucky run-blocking tape.
Logan Stenberg - G Kentucky, Lions 4th Round pick
Extended film look at the power and the pass-protection questions coming out of the SEC.
Stenberg was the anchor of one of the best offensive lines in Kentucky history. A three-star from Madison, Alabama, he redshirted in 2015, lettered as a reserve in 2016, then started 39 consecutive games at left guard from 2017 through 2019, every game of his final three seasons, and finished with 51 appearances.
The team results made the case for him. Kentucky won 32 games over his four years, the program's best stretch since the Bear Bryant era. He blocked for Benny Snell's school rushing record and then for the 2019 offense that set school marks with 3,624 rushing yards, 6.32 per carry and 36 rushing touchdowns while Lynn Bowden won the SEC rushing title. Kentucky charted Stenberg at an 85 percent grade with a team-high 95 knockdown blocks and 209 blocks at the point of attack, and he allowed no sacks and one pressure all season.
The honors followed: first-team All-SEC from the Associated Press, second-team All-American from the FWAA, and a Senior Bowl invitation. The concerns were athletic. He ran 5.30 with a 26-inch vertical at the Combine, testing at the bottom of the group, and evaluators saw a scheme-specific power guard rather than a plug-and-play starter. Detroit traded down from 109 and took him at 121.
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Elite finishing temperament
Plays through the whistle and buries defenders, with a team-high 95 knockdown blocks as a senior.
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Legitimate drive power
Generates movement on down blocks and double teams, the engine of a record-setting Kentucky rushing attack.
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Iron durability
Started 39 consecutive games across three seasons, every game his team played, without missing time.
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Clean 2019 pass-protection record
Charted by his staff as allowing no sacks and just one pressure across the entire senior season.
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Decorated production
First-team All-SEC and second-team All-American on a line that set three school rushing records in one year.
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Bottom-tier testing
A 5.30 forty and 26-inch vertical at the Combine confirmed the lack of athleticism scouts saw on tape.
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Plays too tall
A 6-6 guard who does not consistently sink his hips, letting shorter interior rushers work under his pads.
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Scheme dependent
Built for gap and power concepts, with limited value pulling or reaching in a wide-zone offense.
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Struggles against quickness
Interior speed rushers can beat him off the snap before he gets his hands set and reset his base.
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
- 5.30sp50
- Vertical
- 26inp50
- Broad jump
- 104inp50
- Three-cone
- 8.00sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.83sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Kentucky | — |
| 2017 | Kentucky | — |
| 2018 | Kentucky | — |
| 2019 | Kentucky | — |
| Career | — | 51 |
Kentucky and Detroit both list 51 career games with 39 consecutive starts at left guard covering every game of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons. Neither source publishes a game-by-game breakdown per year, so the individual season rows are left empty rather than derived. He redshirted in 2015 and lettered as a reserve in 2016.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A tough interior backup who starts in stretches and holds a roster spot on the strength of his run blocking.
The ceiling: a powerful, scheme-specific guard who locks down a starting job for the better part of a decade.
A decorated college guard whose athletic limits keep him to practice squads and a handful of NFL snaps.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
He never got healthy enough to find out. Stenberg played two games as a rookie in 2020 without an offensive snap, then appeared in seven games in 2021 before landing on injured reserve in October, logging four offensive snaps all year. His only real opportunity came in 2022, when he played all sixteen games with four starts at both guard spots and took 228 offensive snaps.
Detroit released him in August 2023. Chicago claimed him on waivers and cut him two weeks later, Tampa Bay signed him to the practice squad that September and to a futures deal in January, then released him in May 2024, and he retired. He finished with 25 NFL games, four starts and 232 career offensive snaps. He has since returned to Lexington as part of Kentucky's official pregame radio coverage. In hindsight the miss was predictable: a guard whose value was entirely power in a gap scheme, drafted by a team that never gave him a clean healthy season, left no margin when the athletic testing said what it said.