Solomon
Kindley.
Solomon
Kindley.
Georgia· 6'3"· 337 lb
"A 337-pound Georgia captain with 32 SEC starts who dominated between the tackles and struggled everywhere else, graded strictly as a power-scheme guard with no path outside it."Pre-draft read
Kindley is a 340-pound road grader who started three years in the SEC for an offense built on running the ball. He is enormous through the hips and torso, and uses that mass to bury tackles on down blocks and collapse a gap on duo and power.
He is a phone booth player. Inside the box he is hard to move, anchors firmly and finishes with the mean streak that made him a captain. Once he has to move, the picture changes: he is slow off the snap, lumbers when asked to pull or climb, and lunges at linebackers he cannot reach. Quick interior rushers get to his edges before he can redirect. The signature is size and strength in a confined space, a guard whose value is entirely tied to how often his offense runs downhill behind him.
A gap and duo run offense that keeps its guards in confined spaces, blocking down and doubling three-techniques rather than pulling or reaching.
Year 1 starting guard in a downhill run scheme, with a ceiling as a long-term interior starter for a team that runs behind him on early downs.
A wide-zone or screen-heavy offense that asks guards to reach defenders, pull wide and block in space on the perimeter.
Georgia OL vs Notre Dame 2019
All-snaps interior line study against a top defensive front from his final college season.
Solomon Kindley, Sugar Bowl
Bowl-game footage from the end of his junior year, his last tape before declaring.
Georgia OL Solomon Kindley | 2020 NFL Combine
Combine session where the arm length and movement limitations were measured.
Kindley came out of Raines High in Jacksonville and redshirted his first year at Georgia in 2016, then spent three seasons starting on some of the best offensive lines in the country. He played all fifteen games with seven starts at right guard as a redshirt freshman in 2017, earning Coaches' Freshman All-SEC honors, then started all fourteen games at left guard as a sophomore and eleven of thirteen as a junior, missing time with an ankle sprain.
The teams around him won constantly. Georgia won eleven or more games in three straight seasons, took three consecutive SEC East titles and played in three straight New Year's Six bowls, averaging more than 185 rushing yards per game in his final year. He was named a team captain in 2019 and finished with 43 career games and 32 starts, 25 of them at left guard. He declared for the draft in January rather than return as a senior.
The evaluation was blunt. He was a power-scheme guard and nothing else, a 337-pound blocker at the Combine with short arms and limited movement whose tape looked dominant when the play was between the tackles and pedestrian whenever it asked him to move. Miami, rebuilding its line around a rookie quarterback, took him at 111 to start immediately.
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Immense functional mass
At 337 pounds he is nearly impossible to bull back and can bury interior defenders on down blocks.
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Three-year SEC starter
32 career starts on Georgia lines that produced three straight New Year's Six bowl teams and 11-win seasons.
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Anchor in pass protection
Sets a firm base against power and gives up almost nothing when he is not asked to move laterally.
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Finisher with a mean streak
Plays through the whistle inside and was voted a team captain as a junior for that temperament.
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Both guard spots
Started 25 games at left guard and seven at right, letting a team plug him in wherever the interior need is.
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Poor movement skills
Lumbers when pulling or climbing to the second level and rarely connects with linebackers in space.
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Slow off the snap
Late out of his stance, which lets quick three-techniques cross his face before he can set his hands.
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Short arms for his mass
Combine arm length just over 32 inches, so defenders get into his chest before he can strike first.
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Scheme-locked projection
Only fits gap and power offenses, which cut the number of teams that had a real role for him.
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Georgia | 15 |
| 2018 | Georgia | 14 |
| 2019 | Georgia | 13 |
| Career | — | 43 |
Season and career figures from the Miami Dolphins media guide and Georgia official releases; the three starting seasons sum exactly to the 32-start career total, 25 of them at left guard and seven at right. The published 43-game career total is one more than the three listed seasons, which reflects an appearance credited to his 2016 redshirt year that is not itemized in the sources consulted. Offensive linemen do not accumulate conventional statistics.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A big early-round-adjacent guard who wins a starting job as a rookie and loses it once the roster improves.
The ceiling: an enormous power guard who becomes a Pro Bowl interior starter in a gap scheme.
A Georgia interior blocker whose NFL role never stabilizes and who falls off rosters within a few seasons.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
He started as a rookie and then disappeared. Kindley began Miami's 2020 season opener alongside Austin Jackson, the first Dolphins rookie duo to start a season opener on the offensive line since 2008, and made thirteen starts that year, ten at right guard and two at left, including games in which Miami did not allow a sack protecting Tua Tagovailoa and rushed for 250 yards against New England. It was a genuine contributor's season.
Then it stopped. Miami rebuilt the line in 2021 and Kindley started only two of the sixteen games he played, before being waived in August 2022 with 29 career games and fifteen starts. The Giants signed him to the practice squad that October and released him in May 2023. He did not appear in another NFL regular-season game, and in February 2026 he signed with the D.C. Defenders of the UFL. In hindsight the rookie year was the whole return: a fourth-round guard who won a starting job immediately, lost it just as fast when the scheme changed around him, and never got another one.