Devonte
Wyatt.
Devonte
Wyatt.
Georgia· 6'3"· 304 lb· 4.77s 40
"The quickest 300-pounder in a Georgia front that produced five first-round picks, and the one whose pressure film said he would rush the passer longest."Pre-draft read
Wyatt was the quickest 300-pounder in the class. He played three-technique in Georgia's rotation and won with a first step that beat guards out of their stance, then converted that jump into a swim or a rip before the block could set. At 6-3 and 315 he was built low and thick, and he used that leverage to work half a man and shoot gaps rather than absorb double teams.
The rest was motor and range. He chased screens down from the backside, ran the arc when Georgia stunted him wide, and finished 2021 with 7.0 tackles for loss from an interior spot in a rotation that never let him play 40 snaps. As a run defender he was more penetrator than anchor, disrupting the fit instead of holding it, which is exactly what an attacking front asks for.
Attacking one-gap four-man front that lets a three-technique fire off the ball instead of reading blocks.
Year 1: rotational interior rusher on 30-35 snaps. Ceiling: top-tier passing-down disruptor who moves the pocket every week.
Two-gap 3-4 that asks him to hold the point over a center and read the play, which erases the first step that makes him valuable.
Pay him for pressure, not for run-down volume.
Georgia DT Devonte Wyatt NFL Draft Film Study
Stadium breakdown of the get-off, hand usage and gap penetration that made him a first-round interior rusher.
Devonte Wyatt Senior Bowl 1v1 Film
Mobile one-on-ones where guards could not handle his first step, the week that cemented his first-round grade.
The Other Georgia DT: Devonte Wyatt Draft Report
Pre-draft report framing him against Jordan Davis inside the same Georgia rotation.
Wyatt arrived at Georgia from Hutchinson Community College and spent four seasons in the deepest defensive line room in college football. He was never the headline — Jordan Davis was the two-gap monolith and Travon Walker was the athletic freak — but by 2021 evaluators had him graded as the most consistently disruptive of the three on a per-snap basis.
His 2021 line reads modest at 39 tackles, 7.0 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks, which is the cost of playing in a rotation that produced five first-round picks. The film sold him: pressure rate near the top of the interior class, a Senior Bowl week in Mobile where guards could not stay in front of him, and combine testing in the mid-4.7s at over 300 pounds. Two flags followed him — a 2020 off-field incident clubs investigated at length, and a frame that let bigger centers wash him out on true double teams.
The board saw a late-first, early-second interior rusher, generally the second Georgia defensive tackle behind Davis. Green Bay took him at 28 on pass-rush upside rather than run-down volume, a bet clubs privately called the better long-term of the two Bulldog tackles.
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First step
Beat interior linemen out of their stance as consistently as anyone in the class, turning a half-step of quickness into an immediate gap breach.
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Pass-rush plan
Paired the get-off with a real swim and rip, so guards who oversat the quickness got beaten with hands instead of pure burst.
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Leverage
Built low at 6-3, 315 and played under the pads of taller guards, which let him work half a man and disrupt the fit before it formed.
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Motor
Chased plays down from the backside and ran screens over, the kind of effort that shows up on tape long after the snap count ends.
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Versatility
Rushed from three-technique, shaded nose and wide alignments on stunts, and Georgia trusted him on both early downs and third down.
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Anchor
More penetrator than block-eater, and true double teams from big centers and guards could wash him off the point on down-hill runs.
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Production
2.5 sacks and 39 tackles in 2021 gave the box score nothing to sell, so the case rested almost entirely on pressure film.
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Off-field
A 2020 incident that clubs investigated at length, enough to move him down some boards regardless of what the tape showed.
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Age and snap load
He turned 24 in his draft spring and had never carried a full-time workload, leaving durability at volume unanswered.
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- 40 yd
- 4.77sp50
- Vertical
- 29inp50
- Broad jump
- 111inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Georgia | — | 19 | 1.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | Georgia | — | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Georgia | 10 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | Georgia | 14 | 39 | 2.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Career | — | 24 | 113 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
2020 and 2021 verified line-by-line on cfbstats (10 G, 25 tackles, 2.0 TFL; 14 G, 39 tackles, 7.0 TFL, 2.5 sacks, 2 FF). cfbstats has no reachable player page before 2020, so 2018 and 2019 come from published season splits; the four seasons sum exactly to the published career totals of 113 tackles, 12.0 TFL and 5.0 sacks. Game counts for 2018-2019 and career interceptions/fumble recoveries were never verified and stay null rather than zero. He redshirted 2017 after transferring from Hutchinson CC, so no 2017 season is listed.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Quick, undersized-for-the-spot three-technique who wins as a rotational disruptor.
Interior rusher whose get-off and hands make him the centerpiece of a pass defense.
First-round interior athlete whose per-snap flashes never grew into full-time production.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Devonte Wyatt has been a rotational defensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers, seeing increased playing time and production in his second season. He has shown potential as an interior pass rusher.
Green Bay eased him in. He barely played as a rookie in 2022, logging 15 tackles and 1.5 sacks behind Kenny Clark, then broke through in 2023 with 5.5 sacks across 17 games as a designated interior rusher. A shortened 2024 trimmed him to 14 games but he still got five sacks, and 2025 was the most efficient season yet: four sacks, six tackles for loss and seven quarterback hits in just 10 appearances. In July 2026 the Packers extended him on a three-year deal worth a reported $57 million.
The hindsight verdict is a clear win, with a caveat. Wyatt has never been a 1,000-snap workhorse and the tackle totals stay small, but the thing he was drafted to do — collapse the pocket from inside on passing downs — he has done at a top-15 interior level for three straight years, and the market paid him accordingly. Jordan Davis went 15 picks earlier and has been the lesser pass rusher; the evaluation that had Wyatt as the better long-term bet was right.
Data note: Imported from Wikipedia 2022 NFL draft player selections table.