Tyre
Phillips.
Tyre
Phillips.
Mississippi St.· 6'5"· 331 lb· 5.37s 40
"A 331-pound junior-college guard who Mississippi State stuck at left tackle for one season, then showed enough interior power at the Senior Bowl to convince Baltimore he could replace Marshal Yanda."Pre-draft read
Phillips is a mountain of a man, 6-5 and 331 pounds, who played left tackle for Mississippi State but looked like a guard the entire time. He is a power player: heavy hands, a wide anchor and the mass to move a tackle off the ball once he fits his hands inside.
The tape shows the mismatch between his build and his assignment. In the run game he is nasty and buries defenders on down blocks. In pass protection his feet are slow out of the stance and speed rushers beat him around the corner, which happened repeatedly against SEC edges. He plays high and lunges when late, and cannot recover once off balance. The signature is raw power, and the projection was about moving him inside where his lack of range stops mattering.
A gap and power run scheme that pulls and doubles, letting him block down and displace defenders rather than reach or climb in space.
Year 1 competitor for a starting guard job and swing interior backup, with a ceiling as a long-term starting right guard in a downhill run offense.
A wide-zone offense that asks guards to reach nose tackles and climb to second-level linebackers in space.
OL Tyre Phillips, Mississippi State vs Robert Windsor, Penn State
Head-to-head matchup tape against a drafted interior defender, the core of the interior projection.
Tyre Phillips
Mississippi State cutup showing the run-game power and the edge-speed struggles at left tackle.
Welcome to Baltimore - Tyre Phillips, Ravens Offensive Lineman
Post-draft reel framing why Baltimore saw a guard rather than a tackle.
Phillips took the long road. He spent 2015 and 2016 at East Mississippi Community College, the same program that produced Za'Darius Smith, playing guard and establishing himself as one of the top junior-college interior linemen in the country before choosing Mississippi State in 2017.
In Starkville the staff moved him outside. He appeared in 26 games over three seasons and started thirteen of them, all in his senior year of 2019, when he started every game at left tackle and led the team with 821 offensive snaps, 819 of them at left tackle and two at left guard. He was a three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll selection. It was a short starting resume for a Power Five lineman, one full season at a position nobody expected him to play in the NFL.
The Senior Bowl shaped his grade. Baltimore watched him take reps at both tackle spots and at guard in Mobile and came away convinced he could move back inside, where the mass and the hand power would play and the footspeed would be hidden. With Marshal Yanda retiring, the Ravens took him at 106, the last pick of Day 2, expecting him to compete at right guard immediately.
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Rare mass and power
At 6-5 and 331 pounds he can uproot interior defenders and finish blocks once he gets his hands fixed inside.
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Nasty run blocker
Drives defenders off the ball on down blocks and combinations, the trait that carried his entire evaluation.
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Positional flexibility shown
Worked both tackle spots and guard at the Senior Bowl, convincing teams the interior move would take.
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Durability and workload
Led Mississippi State with 821 offensive snaps as a senior, starting all thirteen games at left tackle.
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Junior-college pedigree
Rated among the top interior linemen in the 2017 junior-college class after two years at East Mississippi.
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Slow feet in pass protection
SEC speed rushers beat him around the edge repeatedly, which is why nobody projected him at tackle.
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One year of Power Five starting tape
Thirteen career starts, all in 2019, with no body of work at the position he would actually play.
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Plays too upright
High pad level lets defenders under his hands and negates the considerable power advantage.
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Lunges when beaten
Overextends to recover against quickness and has no ability to reset once his balance is gone.
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
- 5.37sp50
- Vertical
- 25inp50
- Broad jump
- 93inp50
- Three-cone
- 8.17sp50
- Shuttle
- 5.11sp50
- Bench
- 22repp50
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mississippi State | — |
| 2018 | Mississippi State | — |
| 2019 | Mississippi State | 13 |
| Career | — | 26 |
Career totals of 26 games and 13 starts come from official team materials; all thirteen starts came in 2019 at left tackle, where he led Mississippi State with 821 offensive snaps. The 2017 and 2018 game counts are not published separately in the sources consulted and are left empty rather than estimated. His 2015 and 2016 seasons at East Mississippi Community College are not covered by FBS statistical databases.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A versatile swing lineman who starts when injuries demand it and holds a roster spot for years on flexibility.
The ceiling Baltimore explicitly cited: a heavy college tackle who becomes a punishing long-term Pro Bowl guard inside.
A Day 3 interior body who competes for a job, loses it, and bounces along the back of rosters.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Baltimore never settled him anywhere. Phillips started games at right guard as a rookie in 2020 and made two postseason starts at right tackle, but the Ravens kept sliding him along the line as injuries dictated and he never claimed a job. He landed with the Giants in 2022 and had his most stable stretch, starting fourteen games across two seasons, including nine at right tackle in 2023 before tearing a quad tendon in Week 17 and needing surgery.
He has been a roster-edge player since. New York brought him back to the practice squad in November 2024; Washington and Cleveland both signed and released him across 2025 and 2026, with Philadelphia also adding him to a practice squad. His career line is 27 regular-season starts spread across every offensive line position except center, nineteen of them at right tackle. In hindsight the Ravens got a versatile emergency body rather than the Marshal Yanda replacement they drafted him to become, and the pass-protection limits that made him a guard prospect in 2020 followed him everywhere he lined up.