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Arcuri.
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Arcuri.
Michigan St.
"The second-to-last pick of the draft, a sixth-year Michigan State tackle with elite length and poor feet, who spent four straight years being cut and re-signed by the same team."Pre-draft read
A 6-7 1/8, 308-pound developmental tackle whose selling points are length and strength rather than movement. He has 33 7/8-inch arms and 10 7/8-inch hands, and put up 27 bench reps at his pro day.
He is at his best in pass protection with a two-point set, using his reach to catch rushers early and anchoring with a wide base once they get into his chest. He was also flexible enough to start at right tackle, left tackle and right guard in one season. The athletic limits are severe. A 5.48 forty, a 7.75 three-cone and a 4.75 shuttle are poor numbers even for the position, and they show up against speed rushers off the edge and on any run concept that asks him to reach a defender or climb to the second level.
A gap and duo run scheme with vertical-set pass protection that lets him use length and anchor instead of asking him to move laterally.
Year 1: practice squad developmental tackle. Ceiling: a swing backup at both tackle spots who plays jumbo packages.
A wide zone offense that asks him to reach-block a three-technique and climb to the second level, where his feet make him a liability on every play.
Every team that kept him did so for the arms and the anchor, never for the movement.
Michigan State offensive line versus Michigan defense, 2021
Full-game protection work against a top edge rush.
Michigan State offensive line versus Ohio State defense, 2021
His left tackle snaps against the best front on the schedule.
Michigan State offensive line versus Nebraska defense, 2021
Run blocking on the way to Kenneth Walker III's award season.
Arcuri was born in Powell, Ohio and attended Olentangy Liberty High School there, arriving at Michigan State as a project body who needed years in the weight room.
He got them. He was a four-year letterwinner who played 40 career games with 25 starts, and he used a sixth season of eligibility in 2021 to finish the job. He was a reserve across 13 games in 2018, started five games in 2019, all at left tackle, and started all seven games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, again at left tackle.
The 2021 season was his one full year as an every-game starter. He started all 13 games, the first eight at right tackle and the final five at left tackle, and played 738 snaps, fourth most on the Spartan offense. He blocked for Kenneth Walker III, who won the Doak Walker Award and the Walter Camp Player of the Year award and finished second in FBS with 1,636 rushing yards. Arcuri earned honorable mention All-Big Ten from the media, played all 89 snaps in the Peach Bowl win over 12th-ranked Pitt, and was a five-time Academic All-Big Ten selection and a semifinalist for the 2021 Campbell Trophy.
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Length
33 7/8-inch arms and a wingspan of nearly six-eleven, enough reach to keep rushers off his frame in protection.
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Anchor strength
27 bench reps and a wide base, so bull rushers rarely walked him backward into the quarterback.
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Positional flexibility
he started at left tackle, right tackle and right guard during his final college season.
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Durability and volume
40 career games and 738 snaps as a sixth-year senior, with no missed time at the end of it.
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Football character
five-time Academic All-Big Ten and a Campbell Trophy semifinalist, the profile coaches trust.
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Foot speed
a 5.48 forty and a 1.89 ten-yard split, which leaves him late to the edge against any real speed rusher.
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Change of direction
a 7.75 three-cone and 4.75 shuttle, poor agility numbers that cap him on stunts and twists.
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Zone run fit
he struggles to reach defenders or climb to linebackers, narrowing which run games can use him.
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Late bloomer
only one full season as a starter, and it came in his sixth year of college at age twenty-four.
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Michigan State | — |
| 2017 | Michigan State | — |
| 2018 | Michigan State | 13 |
| 2019 | Michigan State | 7 |
| 2020 | Michigan State | 7 |
| 2021 | Michigan State | 13 |
| Career | — | 40 |
Games and starts come from the Michigan State athletics bio and match Sports-Reference, which lists 40 career games including bowls. Season rows sum exactly to 40 games and 25 starts. Offensive linemen record no statistical production, so only participation is listed; the 2016 and 2017 seasons carry no rows because he did not letter.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A Rams developmental lineman who needed years before earning real snaps.
A long, heavy-footed tackle who carved out a decade as a valued swing backup.
A Rams tackle whose limitations kept him on the roster fringe and out of the lineup.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Los Angeles took Arcuri with pick 261, the second-to-last selection of the entire draft, and what followed was four straight years of the same cycle. He was waived at final cuts on August 29, 2023 and re-signed to the practice squad. He was waived again on August 27, 2024 and re-signed to the practice squad. He was waived on August 26, 2025 and re-signed to the practice squad the next day. The Rams kept finding a reason to bring him back and never quite a reason to keep him on the 53.That pattern produced 10 games played with one start through the 2025 season, snaps that came as an extra lineman or an injury fill-in rather than a settled role. The cycle finally broke on August 30, 2026, when the Rams waived him at final cuts without re-signing him.
Baltimore signed him to its practice squad on September 2, 2026. For the 261st pick, four years inside one organization and a game started in the National Football League is more than the slot usually returns, even though he never became a real swing tackle. He remains what he was on draft day: a long, strong, slow-footed body that teams are willing to keep around as emergency depth.