Matt
Peart.
Matt
Peart.
UConn· 6'7"· 318 lb· 5.06s 40
"The longest arms at the Combine on a tackle who started all 48 games he ever played at UConn, with every evaluation hinging on whether the strength would catch up to the frame."Pre-draft read
Peart is a rare physical outlier at tackle: 6-7 with a 36 5/8-inch reach, the longest arms at the 2020 Combine, and testing that placed him in the 90th percentile of tackles since 1987. He plays to that length in pass protection, firing off the snap with knee bend and jolting rushers before they reach his frame.
The movement is the second selling point. He slides fluidly off the edge, pulls across the formation and climbs to the second level, the profile of a zone-scheme tackle who can play either side. What is missing is mass and finish: at 318 pounds he rarely displaces defenders on running downs and lets blocks die rather than burying people.
A wide zone running game that rewards range and second-level climbs over displacement, paired with a quick passing game that limits how long his anchor gets tested.
Year 1 developmental swing tackle behind an established starter, with a ceiling as a long-term starting left tackle if he adds functional weight.
A gap and power scheme that asks its tackles to down-block and drive defensive ends off the ball on every early down.
Matt Peart UConn Highlights: New York Giants Right Tackle
College reel covering the pass sets, the length advantage and the second-level climbs.
Matthew Peart Film Breakdown
Play-by-play breakdown of his technique and the play-strength concerns that defined the evaluation.
UConn Offensive Line vs UCF 2018
Full-game line cutups from the season he started all twelve games at guard.
Peart did not play football until he arrived at Governor's Academy in Massachusetts, and his recruitment reflected it: UConn was the destination, a redshirt in 2015 was the plan. Then he started every game he ever played for the Huskies, all 48 of them across four seasons, beginning at left tackle, spending 2018 at guard, and returning outside as a senior.
The production around him was the resume. UConn produced two 1,000-yard rushers in 2018 and another in 2019 behind a line he anchored, and he closed with first-team All-AAC honors, a team captaincy and invitations to the Senior Bowl and the Combine. In Indianapolis he confirmed what the frame suggested, finishing with the fifth-best composite athletic testing score among tackles in the class behind only Ezra Cleveland, Mekhi Becton, Tristan Wirfs and Austin Jackson.
The scouting community treated him as a developmental swing tackle with a first-round body. Tony Pauline wrote that he had everything teams look for fundamentally and athletically but had to add playing strength and intensity, calling him a boom-or-bust prospect. The Giants, who had just taken Andrew Thomas fourth overall, used a compensatory pick at 99 on a tackle they could redshirt behind their starters.
- 01
Extraordinary length
A 36 5/8-inch reach, longest of any tackle at the 2020 Combine, that keeps pass rushers from ever getting into his chest.
- 02
Elite athletic testing
Finished in the 90th percentile of tackles tested since 1987 and fifth in composite score among tackles in his class.
- 03
Consistent technique
Bends his knees, blocks with leverage and stays square, the fundamental base that scouts called top-75 quality.
- 04
Mobility in space
Pulls across the line and climbs to the second level fluidly, fitting cleanly into a zone-blocking scheme.
- 05
Availability and versatility
Started all 48 games of his UConn career at both tackle spots and a full season at guard.
- 01
Lacks play strength
At 318 pounds on a frame that still needed filling, he gets almost no movement on running downs.
- 02
Does not finish
Blocks die at contact instead of ending with a defender on the ground, the nastiness scouts kept asking for.
- 03
Hand placement
Inconsistent strikes let defenders work into his frame despite the length advantage he should never surrender.
- 04
Level of competition
Four years in the AAC on a losing UConn team meant he rarely faced NFL-caliber edge rushers.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.06sp50
- Vertical
- 30inp50
- Broad jump
- 113inp50
- Three-cone
- 8.01sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.92sp50
- Bench
- 26repp50
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | UConn | 12 |
| 2017 | UConn | 12 |
| 2018 | UConn | 12 |
| 2019 | UConn | 12 |
| Career | — | 48 |
Offensive linemen carry games and starts only. UConn and Giants team releases confirm he started all 48 games he played across four seasons after redshirting in 2015, twelve starts in each year. He opened his career at left tackle, started all twelve games at guard in 2018, and returned outside for a first-team All-AAC senior season. No individual statistical categories apply to the position.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A long, athletic swing tackle who lasts many seasons as a valuable backup without ever locking down a starting spot.
The ceiling: a technically sound athletic tackle who holds down a starting blind-side job for the better part of a decade.
A tackle with the measurables but not the play strength, whose career ends without ever finding a reliable role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
He never took the job. Peart played eleven games as a rookie in 2020 with one start at left tackle, then got his longest look in 2021: fifteen games and five starts, three at left tackle and two at right. That was the audition, and the Giants moved on from it. He played nine games in 2022 with no starts and 116 offensive snaps, then eight games in 2023 with one start at right tackle and 133 snaps, spending most of his final two New York seasons as a jumbo package body and special-teams player.
Denver signed him as a free agent in March 2024, and the pattern held: seventeen games with two starts that year, six games with one start in 2025, then a roster spot into 2026. Through seven seasons he has appeared in 68 regular-season games with ten starts and three playoff games. In hindsight the boom-or-bust label was correct and the bust side won on a technicality. The length and the testing were real, the strength never arrived, and a player who started 48 straight college games has made ten starts in seven professional years, surviving on his frame as a swing tackle.
Data note: Imported from Wikipedia 2020 NFL draft player selections table.