Chasen
Hines.
Chasen
Hines.
LSU· 6'3"· 327 lb· 5.22s 40
"A four-star defensive tackle converted to guard who never made the technique catch up to the mass, Chasen Hines finished three NFL seasons with zero games played and was in the Indoor Football League before he turned twenty-six."Pre-draft read
A converted defensive tackle who never stopped playing like one. Hines is 6-3 and well north of 330 pounds with 33 7/8-inch arms, and in a phone booth he is genuinely difficult to move: he sits into his anchor, absorbs bull rushes and finishes with bad intentions when he gets a body on someone. Down blocks and short-yardage duo work are where his mass shows up as a real advantage.
The problem is everything that requires him to travel. His 5.22 forty, 5.00 shuttle and 8.46 cone are heavy numbers even for a guard, and on pulls and reach blocks he arrives late and off balance. His pad level drifts up once he starts moving, and quick interior rushers who cross his face are gone before he can redirect his weight.
A gap and duo run scheme with heavy short-yardage usage that asks its guards to displace one man straight ahead and never to pull across the formation.
Year 1: developmental interior body and short-yardage jumbo lineman. Ceiling: a road-grading right guard in a power scheme that hides his lateral limits.
A wide-zone offense built on reach blocks and guard pulls, where his feet cannot cover the ground the scheme requires.
The heavier the run scheme, the closer he gets to being playable.
Chasen Hines College Highlights, LSU, OL
The Patriots' own draft-day cut-up of his LSU guard work.
Chasen Hines Right Guard Highlights
Extended right guard tape showing the anchor and the finishing temperament.
LSU OL Chasen Hines interview | 2022 NFL Scouting Combine
Combine interview covering the defensive tackle conversion and the weight questions.
Hines came to LSU as a four-star defensive tackle out of Marshall, Texas — a kid who played baseball until his junior year of high school and only two seasons of football before college — and the staff immediately moved him to offensive guard. That background explains both the raw power and the technical gaps that never fully closed in four years.
His path was slow and interrupted. He appeared in eight games as a true freshman in 2018 with one start, played ten games without a start on the 2019 national championship team, and finally became a full-time starter in 2020 with nine starts in nine games. His senior year was cut short: eight games, seven starts, on an LSU team in its final season under Ed Orgeron. Across four seasons that added up to 35 games and only 17 starts, which is a thin starting résumé for a fourth-year SEC lineman.
He tested the way he looked, measuring 6-2 3/4 and 327 pounds at the Combine with 20 bench reps and agility numbers at the bottom of the class. Evaluators saw the power, the SEC pedigree and a body that could anchor against NFL nose tackles, and they saw a player who might never be scheme-flexible enough to dress on Sundays. The sixth round split the difference.
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Genuine anchor strength
335-plus pounds with 33 7/8-inch arms that stone bull rushes when he sinks his hips on time.
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Short-yardage and duo run blocking
his best football comes on down blocks where he only has to move a defender one gap.
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Finishing temperament
carries the defensive-lineman aggression he was recruited with into every rep he wins.
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SEC-tested resume
four years against elite interior defenders, including a national championship season on the 2019 LSU roster.
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Untapped developmental upside
only two years of high school football and a mid-career position change, so the technique floor was still rising.
- 01
Bottom-of-class movement skills
a 5.00 shuttle and 8.46 cone make him a liability on pulls, reaches and anything asking him to run.
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Weight management questions
listed as high as 350 pounds at LSU before measuring 327 at the Combine, a swing that worried NFL staffs.
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Thin starting résumé
only 17 career starts across four SEC seasons, and never a full healthy year as a fixture.
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Guard-only projection
no snapping ability, which leaves a late-round interior lineman without the roster flexibility his draft slot demands.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.22sp50
- Vertical
- 30.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 108inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | LSU | 8 |
| 2019 | LSU | 10 |
| 2020 | LSU | 9 |
| 2021 | LSU | 8 |
| Career | — | 35 |
Participation verified against The Football Database's college table, whose four LSU seasons sum exactly to the listed career totals of 35 games and 17 starts. The 2019 line is games played without a start on LSU's national championship team. Offensive linemen produce no statistical output, so no other columns are carried; he recorded one career tackle, on special teams in 2021. His LSU listed weight climbed from 336 as a freshman to 350 as a senior before he measured 327 pounds at the Combine.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Heavy late-round interior lineman who cycles through practice squads without earning a game-day helmet.
Power-first right guard who made a long career out of anchoring in a gap scheme rather than moving in space.
Powerful but limited guard whose body and movement profile ended his NFL run before his mid-twenties.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
New England took him 210th overall and he never played a regular-season snap for them, or for anyone. The Patriots placed him on injured reserve on October 29, 2022, ending a rookie season in which he had not appeared in a game, and he was gone from the roster before the 2023 season started. Miami signed him to the practice squad on August 31, 2023, gave him a reserve/future contract that January, waived him at cuts in August 2024 and brought him straight back to the practice squad. He spent a second full year in Miami without ever being elevated, and the Dolphins waived him for good on May 8, 2025. Through three NFL seasons his official statistical line reads zero games played and zero starts.
He kept playing. Birmingham of the UFL signed him on October 7, 2025, and by 2026 he was listed with the Jacksonville Sharks of the Indoor Football League. That is the honest ending for a sixth-round guard whose only NFL-caliber trait was mass: he was strong enough to be drafted and too heavy-footed to dress, and the league moved on before he turned twenty-six.