Mctelvin
Agim.
Mctelvin
Agim.
Arkansas· 6'3"· 309 lb· 4.98s 40
"A five-star who stayed home and gave Arkansas four years of tackles for loss, without ever showing the anchor that separates a disruptive college tackle from an NFL starter."Pre-draft read
Agim is a 6-3, 300-pound interior lineman who spent his college career moving up and down the front, from five-technique end as a junior to three-technique tackle as a senior. The appeal is quickness off the ball: he times snaps well and is into the backfield before guards can settle, which is how he piled up 33 career tackles for loss in the SEC.
The second trait is hand violence and motor. He swipes and rips rather than grappling and forced six fumbles in four years, unusual for an interior player. The anchor is the problem: he plays high and gets washed on double teams, so the production is disruption rather than run-stopping. The signature is the penetrating first step that turns a run play into a loss before it starts.
An attacking one-gap front that lets him penetrate on the snap and never asks him to two-gap or hold a double team, ideally in a heavy rotation.
Year 1 rotational interior pass rusher on 25 snaps a game, with a ceiling as a starting three-technique who produces six to eight sacks.
A two-gap 3-4 front that requires him to control blockers and hold the point on early downs, where his pad level is exposed every snap.
McTelvin Agim Arkansas Career Highlights
Career reel assembled after the draft, covering all four Arkansas seasons.
McTelvin Agim Highlights - Day 3 Sleeper DT?
Pre-draft film study of the get-off and the anchor concerns that defined his grade.
McTelvin Agim Arkansas Highlights
Additional cutups of his interior penetration and hand usage against SEC guards.
Agim was a five-star recruit from Hope, Arkansas, one of the most decorated prospects in state history, and he stayed home. He contributed from day one, making the SEC All-Freshman team in 2016 with 27 tackles and six for loss across thirteen games, and he never missed significant time again.
The progression was steady rather than explosive. He added 37 tackles and eight for loss as a sophomore, then moved to defensive end as a junior and produced his best year with 45 tackles, ten for loss, 4.5 sacks and three forced fumbles across 597 snaps. Arkansas moved him back inside as a senior, where he started all twelve games at tackle and led the team in tackles for loss and sacks, grading 78.6 overall from Pro Football Focus with an 81.5 in pressure. He finished with 148 tackles, 33 tackles for loss, 14.5 sacks and six forced fumbles.
The evaluation was disruption without an anchor. He was productive every year on bad Arkansas teams, but he never dominated the way a five-star interior player was expected to, and the tape showed a player who won with quickness and lost when blockers got hands on him. Denver, with its final Day 2 pick after taking Jerry Jeudy, KJ Hamler, Michael Ojemudia and Lloyd Cushenberry, took him at 95 as a rotational three-technique.
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Interior get-off
Times the snap and shoots gaps with rare quickness for 300 pounds, the trait that drove 33 career tackles for loss.
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Positional flexibility
Started at both five-technique end and three-technique tackle in the SEC without a drop in production.
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Ball disruption
Six career forced fumbles from an interior alignment, an unusual number that speaks to hand violence at the point.
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Four years of SEC starts
Productive from his freshman All-SEC season through his senior year, with no lost time and no drop-off.
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Senior-year pressure grade
Led Arkansas in both sacks and tackles for loss and graded 81.5 in pressure from Pro Football Focus.
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No anchor at the point
Plays with high pads, gets displaced by double teams and cannot hold a gap on early downs.
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Production never matched pedigree
A five-star recruit whose best season was 4.5 sacks, modest output for the expectations he carried.
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Tweener build
At 6-3 and 300 pounds with short-area quickness but no length, he lacks a natural home in a two-gap front.
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Inconsistent counters
Wins with the first move and has little to fall back on when a guard absorbs it, so pressure comes in bursts.
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.
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| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
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| 2016 | Arkansas | 13 | 27 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | Arkansas | 12 | 37 | 2.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 2018 | Arkansas | 12 | 45 | 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | Arkansas | 12 | 39 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Career | — | 49 | 148 | 14.5 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
Season figures are from Sports-Reference with bowl games included and sum exactly to the 49-game, 148-tackle, 33-stop, 14.5-sack career totals on that page. Denver's draft release lists 42 games, 140 tackles and 31 tackles for loss, and Arkansas' own 2019 recap credits him with 8.5 tackles for loss rather than nine; those discrepancies have not been reconciled and the Sports-Reference line is used because it is internally consistent.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A rotational interior lineman who plays several seasons without ever being more than a depth piece.
The ceiling: a quick interior rusher who becomes a long-term starting three-technique on a good front.
Highly recruited tackle whose lack of anchor leaves him without a role and out of the league quickly.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
He never earned a real role. As a rookie he dressed for sixteen games as a backup interior lineman with eight tackles and no sacks, then appeared in all seventeen in 2021, playing meaningful snaps in only a handful and recording 1.5 sacks against Washington in the one game he was on the field for 90 snaps. Denver waived him before the 2022 season and he spent that year out of the league.
Indianapolis signed him in 2023 and he played thirteen snaps in one game against New Orleans, his last NFL appearance. The career totals are 34 games, fourteen tackles and 1.5 sacks over three seasons, and he has been a free agent since. In hindsight this is the classic interior tweener miss. The quickness that produced tackles for loss in the SEC was neutralized by NFL guards who simply did not let him past the line of scrimmage, and without an anchor there was no early-down role to fall back on. Denver used four Day 2 picks that spring and this was the one that returned nothing.
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