Logan
Bruss.
Logan
Bruss.
Wisconsin· 6'5"· 309 lb· 5.32s 40
Bruss was Wisconsin's swing piece in a downhill run game, a right-side lineman who logged heavy snaps at both tackle and guard. His game started with pace: quick first steps, a low pad level and a knack for arriving square at the point of contact, which let him climb to linebackers and wall off backside pursuit cleanly.
In pass protection the picture narrowed. He anchored well against bull rushers thanks to a thick lower half, and he rarely panicked against pressure looks, but his hands were late and his recovery quickness did not match NFL edge speed. Against inside rushers that same power played up. The signature was positional flexibility married to a nasty, finish-through-the-whistle temperament rather than athletic ceiling.
Gap/duo-heavy pro-style run game with play-action drop-back passing
Year 1 as a sixth lineman and jumbo package blocker while he converts full time to guard; ceiling is a multi-year starting right guard in a downhill run scheme.
A wide-zone offense that asks its guards to reach-block play-side nose tackles on the move every snap, or any team that needs him to survive at tackle against speed rushers on early downs.
Best protected inside, where his anchor and finish matter more than his recovery quickness.
Logan Bruss NFL Draft Film
Cut-up of Bruss's Wisconsin tape at right tackle and right guard heading into the 2022 draft.
LA Rams select OL Logan Bruss #104 RD 3
The Rams' third-round selection of Bruss at pick 104 and the reaction to the pick.
Former Badgers OL Logan Bruss discusses Pro Day, NFL future
Bruss on his pre-draft process and where teams projected him along the offensive line.
A five-year Badger who redshirted in 2017 and never left the two-deep, Bruss entered the 2022 class as the archetype the Wisconsin pipeline keeps producing: a tough, experienced right-side blocker whose tape reads better in the run game than in space. He played mostly right tackle, but nearly every evaluator projected him inside to guard, where power would matter more than foot speed.
The production backed the projection. He worked into the lineup as a redshirt freshman in 2018, started every game he played in 2019 between right tackle and right guard, moved to right guard for the shortened 2020 season and earned third-team All-Big Ten, then returned outside in 2021 and made second-team All-Big Ten despite missing time with neck and shoulder issues. The flags were athletic rather than technical: a 5.32-second forty and heavy feet that showed up whenever a rusher won the corner, plus a durability file teams wanted to study.
Boards generally slotted him in the fourth-to-sixth-round range as a versatile backup with starter upside at guard. Los Angeles took him at 104 anyway, valuing the flexibility behind a line that had just won a Super Bowl with patchwork depth. It was an aggressive price for a developmental interior starter, and it assumed a clean runway that never arrived.
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Run-game temperament
Plays with a genuine mean streak in the phone booth, finishing blocks through the whistle and consistently moving bodies on down and duo concepts.
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Quick off the ball
Excellent initial movement post-snap with sudden, low first steps that let him beat defenders to the spot on reach blocks and pulls.
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Positional versatility
Logged real starts at both right tackle and right guard in a pro-style system, giving a staff a blocker who can cover two spots on game day.
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Anchor strength
Thick, well-distributed mass through the base allows him to absorb bull rushers and reset his feet without surrendering the pocket's depth.
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Blocking IQ
Keeps his eyes calm against blitz and stunt pressure, passing off games cleanly and rarely getting caught in the wrong gap on line movement.
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Late hands
His punch arrives a beat behind the rusher's, letting defenders into his frame first and forcing him to catch and recover instead of dictating contact.
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Recovery speed
When beaten by the initial move he struggles to redirect, and secondary counters from quicker rushers routinely finish the rep against him.
- 03
Edge athleticism
A 5.32 forty and average change of direction cap his tackle projection; NFL speed rushers can threaten his outside shoulder from the snap.
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Durability file
Neck and shoulder injuries cost him three games as a senior, and medical questions followed him through the pre-draft process into the league.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.32sp50
- Vertical
- 31inp50
- Broad jump
- 112inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.57sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.55sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Wisconsin | 13 |
| 2019 | Wisconsin | 13 |
| 2020 | Wisconsin | 6 |
| 2021 | Wisconsin | 9 |
| Career | — | 41 |
Redshirted 2017. Games and starts per Wisconsin and Los Angeles Rams official releases; cfbstats does not publish participation lines for offensive linemen. 2019: 12 starts at right tackle, one at right guard. 2020: five starts at right guard, one at right tackle (six-game COVID season). 2021: nine starts at right tackle, missed three games with neck and shoulder injuries. Second-team All-Big Ten 2021, third-team 2020.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Steady, technique-first right guard whose value comes from availability and clean pressure numbers rather than athleticism.
Power-based interior blocker with tackle-emergency flexibility who grew into a quality full-time starter.
Decorated Wisconsin interior lineman whose NFL career stalled out in backup and practice-squad roles.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The Rams never got to find out. Bruss tore his ACL and MCL in the second preseason game of his rookie year and spent 2022 on injured reserve, missing the developmental season a raw interior prospect most needs. He was waived at the 2023 cutdown and spent that year on the practice squad, signing a reserve/future deal the following January. His debut finally came in 2024: eight games and three starts in Los Angeles on 195 offensive snaps before he was waived in November, claimed by Tennessee, used on special teams for three games and placed on injured reserve in December. The Titans released him with a failed physical in April 2025, and he resurfaced with the Louisville Kings of the UFL.
In hindsight the pick reads as a medical story as much as an evaluation miss, but the evaluation was already stretched. Most boards had Bruss in the fourth-to-sixth range precisely because the pass-protection tape asked him to become a guard before he could be trusted, and third-round capital left no margin for a lost year. Two knee ligaments in August of that first season erased the runway. What is left is 11 NFL games and three starts from pick 104, which in a class where the Rams needed line depth is simply a whiff. He was never a bad player; he was a fifth-round projection who was drafted in the third and then never got a healthy season to close the gap.