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Retrospective scouting report · Class of 2022R7 · #245
OL· Round 7

Andrew
Stueber.

Andrew Stueber, Michigan scouting portrait
Bomb Grade
36.5/100

Michigan official athletic logoMichigan· 6'7"· 325 lb

/ Recruiting profile
★★★☆☆stars.8891
National · #363HS class · 2017
Darien, CT
247Sports composite via CFBD
R7 · #245 · NWE

"A second-team All-American right tackle from the best offensive line in the country who never played a snap for the team that drafted him and finished with seven career NFL games, none of them starts."Pre-draft read

01Play style

A 6-6 5/8, 325-pound right tackle with 34 1/8-inch arms and a 6-7 7/8 wingspan who plays like the classic Big Ten drive blocker. Stueber's value is in the run game: he covers up edge defenders in gap and duo schemes, gets movement with leverage and mass rather than snap, and finishes what he starts.

Pass protection is where the profile narrows. He is a builder rather than a jumper, with a 24.5-inch vertical and an 8-5 broad jump, and his 4.90 shuttle and 7.94 three-cone confirm he is not recovering laterally against speed off the edge. He anchors well against power and is rarely beaten twice by the same move, but wide rushers get to his outside shoulder when he has to set deep and alone.

02Scheme fit
Ideal system

A gap and duo run scheme that lets a heavy right tackle down-block and climb rather than reach defenders on the move.

Right tackleRight guardSixth offensive linemanGoal-line package
Best role

Year 1: swing tackle and jumbo package blocker. Ceiling: a run-first starting right tackle with help against speed.

Wrong fit

An outside zone offense that asks him to reach the play-side shade and cut off backside pursuit on the run every snap.

The heavier the scheme, the better he looks.

03Film room

Andrew Stueber college highlights, Michigan OL

Right tackle run blocking from his 2021 All-American season.

Michigan offensive line versus the Ohio State defense, 2021

Full-game protection and run blocking against the Buckeyes.

Michigan offensive line versus the Penn State defense, 2021

A road start on the Joe Moore Award-winning line.

04The evaluation

Stueber grew up in Darien, Connecticut, won two state championships at Darien High School and committed to Michigan in June 2016 as part of the highest-rated recruiting class in the program's modern era. He was a four-star prospect by ESPN and the No. 4 player in his state.

The college career took five years and included a lost season. He appeared in one game on special teams as a freshman in 2017, then played all 13 games in 2018 with two starts at right tackle, including his first career start at Ohio State and another in the Peach Bowl against Florida. A torn ACL in training camp wiped out his entire 2019 season.

He came back to start all six games of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, two at right guard and four at right tackle, then delivered the year that got him drafted. In 2021 he started all 14 games at right tackle for a unit that won the Joe Moore Award as the best offensive line in the country, allowing the fewest sacks in the nation with ten. He was a second-team AFCA All-American, first-team All-Big Ten by the coaches, an alternate captain and a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. He finished with 34 appearances and 22 career starts.

05Strengths
  1. 01

    Award-winning pedigree

    he started every game at right tackle for the 2021 Joe Moore Award offensive line, the best unit in the country.

  2. 02

    Length

    34 1/8-inch arms and a 6-7 7/8 wingspan give him the reach to keep rushers off his frame once he lands.

  3. 03

    Run blocking

    his mass and leverage consistently moved bodies in Michigan's gap and duo run game against Big Ten fronts.

  4. 04

    Positional flexibility

    20 career starts at right tackle plus two at right guard, with special teams work early on.

  5. 05

    Toughness and durability after injury

    he returned from a torn ACL to start all 20 games across his final two seasons.

06Concerns
  1. 01

    Limited athleticism

    a 24.5-inch vertical and an 8-5 broad jump were among the weakest explosion numbers at his position.

  2. 02

    Lateral recovery

    a 4.90 shuttle and a 7.94 three-cone show up whenever speed rushers attack his outside shoulder.

  3. 03

    Medical history

    a torn ACL suffered in training camp cost him the entire 2019 season and sat on every team's risk sheet.

  4. 04

    Late bloomer

    only one full season as a quality starting tackle, and it arrived in his fifth year on the Michigan campus.

07Athletic testing
Height
6'7"
Weight
325 lb
Vertical
24.5"
Broad
8'5"
3-cone
7.94s
Shuttle
4.90s
06Athletic profilevs. OL on Big Board
40VERTBRD3CSHTLBNCH

— — — positional median (p50)

40 yd
—s
Vertical
24.5inp50
Broad jump
101inp50
Three-cone
7.94sp50
Shuttle
4.90sp50
Bench
—rep
08College production
YrTeamG
2017Michigan1
2018Michigan13
2020Michigan6
2021Michigan14
Career—34

Games and starts come from Michigan's official player bio, which lists the year-by-year starting assignments game by game. Offensive line seasons carry no counting statistics beyond participation.

A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.

09Pro comparisons
/ Likely outcome
Jack DriscollFree agent

Backup swing tackle who lives on the roster through availability rather than starting-caliber play.

/ Ceiling
Ryan BatesChicago Bears

Late-round Big Ten lineman who turned positional versatility into a starting job and a paid extension.

/ Floor
Jean DelanceFree agent

Big-program tackle who never converted college starts into meaningful NFL snaps.

10In hindsight

Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.

Pro Bowls
0
All-Pro
0
Seasons
—
Career AV
—

New England took him with the 245th pick and he never appeared in a regular-season game for the Patriots. He spent 2022 on the roster without playing, was waived on August 29, 2023 and re-signed to the practice squad, and reached the end of his second season with zero career snaps.

Atlanta claimed him off waivers on June 4, 2024, and Cincinnati signed him off the Falcons' practice squad to its active roster on October 7, 2024. That gave him the only real NFL football of his career: seven games as a reserve lineman down the stretch of the 2024 season, all without a start. The Bengals waived him on August 25, 2025, Atlanta signed him to its active roster on November 4, 2025, and the Falcons waived him again on August 29, 2026. His career line is seven games, no starts and a weighted career approximate value of one. A Joe Moore Award tackle with the arms and the toughness, but not the feet, which is roughly what the seventh round is for.

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