Tyler
Biadasz.
Tyler
Biadasz.
Wisconsin· 6'4"· 314 lb
"A Rimington Trophy winner and unanimous All-American who slid to the fourth round on hip medicals, a converted defensive tackle whose leverage and line calls were already professional."Pre-draft read
Biadasz is a 6-3, 316-pound center built in the Wisconsin tradition: heavy hands, a wide base, and a run-game demeanor that comes from having played defensive tackle in high school. He fires off the ball on down blocks, works combinations to the second level, and is at his best moving a nose tackle a half step so a back can press the crease.
The intelligence is the other half. He made the line calls for four years, identifies fronts and stunts quickly, and his snap-to-set timing is clean enough that he was never a shotgun liability. In protection he anchors against bull rushers but can be beaten laterally by quicker three-techniques, and a late hip injury cost teams the athletic testing they wanted. The signature is leverage.
A wide-zone or mixed run scheme that wants a center to reach a nose tackle and climb, with a quarterback who leans on the pivot for protection calls.
Year 1 rotational center who takes over the job by midseason, with a ceiling as a decade-long full-time starter and Pro Bowl alternate.
A heavy-pull scheme that asks its center to reach the edge in space or a team that needs a lineman who can swing to guard.
Tyler Biadasz Outland Semi-Finalist Highlight Film
Award-submission cut-up from the senior season that ended with the Rimington Trophy.
Tyler Biadasz (Wisconsin C #61) vs. Nebraska (2018)
Full-game center study against a Big Ten front.
Tyler Biadasz WI C #61 vs Miami 2017
His Freshman All-America season against a bowl-caliber defensive line.
Biadasz was a defensive lineman first. He recorded 232 tackles, nineteen sacks and eleven forced fumbles at Amherst High School in Wisconsin, won the Tim Krumrie Award as the state's best defensive lineman, and drew scholarship offers from Illinois State, South Dakota State and Western Illinois before Wisconsin took the in-state three-star and put him on the other side of the ball.
The development curve was steep and unbroken. He played and started 41 games across four seasons with the Badgers, earning Freshman All-America honors in 2017, honorable mention All-America in 2018, and then, as a senior in 2019, unanimous All-American, first-team All-Big Ten and the Rimington Trophy as the best center in college football. He anchored the line for one of the most productive rushing programs in the country and handled the protection calls throughout.
That pedigree usually goes higher than the fourth round. What pushed him down was medical: a hip issue and offseason surgery that clouded the workout process, plus a body type that some teams considered center-only with a modest athletic ceiling. Dallas, always willing to buy an offensive lineman, took him at 146 and the value was obvious immediately.
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Award pedigree
Unanimous All-American, first-team All-Big Ten and Rimington Trophy winner as a senior, the consensus best center in college football.
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Run-blocking leverage
Fires low off the ball and finishes down blocks, a product of a high school career spent playing defensive tackle.
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Combination blocking
Works double teams to the second level with clean timing, the essential center skill in a zone-heavy scheme.
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Protection intelligence
Made front and stunt identifications for four years in a pro-style offense with no snap-exchange issues.
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Immediate starting experience
Played and started 41 games in four seasons and was a full-time starter from his redshirt freshman year forward.
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Medical flags
A hip problem and offseason surgery clouded his pre-draft workout and left teams evaluating without complete athletic testing.
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Lateral quickness
Quick three-techniques can attack a shoulder and cross his face before he resets his hands in protection.
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Position-locked
Short arms and a center-specific build gave him little projection to guard, which lowers the value of a Day 3 lineman.
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Athletic ceiling
A grinder rather than a mover, with limited ability to pull, reach defenders in space or recover once beaten at the snap.
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Wisconsin | — |
| 2018 | Wisconsin | — |
| 2019 | Wisconsin | — |
| Career | — | 41 |
Career total of 41 games played and started across four seasons at Wisconsin (2016-19) comes from the Commanders team biography announcing his signing. That source does not break the figure down by season, so individual season lines are left empty rather than estimated; he did not play as a true freshman in 2016. Honors by year are documented: Freshman All-America in 2017, honorable mention All-America in 2018, and unanimous All-American, first-team All-Big Ten and the Rimington Trophy in 2019.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A durable starting center who anchors two different offensive lines and gets paid in free agency.
The ceiling: a mid-round center who becomes a decade-long starter and earns a top-of-market second contract.
A starting-caliber center whose availability and athletic limits keep him in and out of the lineup.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Dallas got a starter in the fourth round almost immediately. He played twelve games with four starts as a rookie in 2020, took the center job outright in 2021 and started all seventeen games for an NFC East champion, then started all sixteen in 2022 and earned a Pro Bowl berth as an alternate, and started all sixteen again in 2023 in front of a Dak Prescott season with a 105.9 passer rating and Tony Pollard's second straight 1,000-yard year. He reached the playoffs every season from 2021 through 2023.
Washington signed him in free agency in March of 2024 to anchor a rebuilt offensive line, and he started fifteen games that year and all sixteen in 2025. Through six seasons he has 92 games with 84 starts, a Pro Bowl, and five straight years as a full-time NFL starting center, and he appears on a Chargers roster for his seventh season. For pick 146 this is a clear win: the medical concerns that pushed a Rimington winner into the fourth round never cost him a season, and he has been the best center taken in the class.