Logan
Hall.
Logan
Hall.
Houston· 6'6"· 283 lb· 4.88s 40
"A 230-pound edge who left Houston as a 283-pound interior disruptor, Hall was drafted for length, gap-shooting quickness and the ability to rush from four alignments in the same front."Pre-draft read
Hall played all over Houston's front, from three-technique to a reduced five and out to a wide alignment on passing downs. At 6-6 and 283 pounds he is a length-first disruptor: he gets his hands on a blocker's frame early, extends to keep his chest clean, and works down the line to make tackles the interior rarely reaches.
He is far more advanced as a penetrator than as an anchor. Gap-shooting quickness and a long-arm are the pass-rush base, and his 13 tackles for loss as a senior came from beating guards before they could settle. Against double teams and downhill power he can be moved off his spot because his pad level rises with his height. The separator is flexibility — a rusher who can line up at four spots without changing his plan.
Attacking one-gap front that asks him to penetrate a single gap on early downs and rush from a reduced inside alignment on passing downs.
Year 1: sub-package interior rusher and rotational base end. Ceiling: full-time three-technique with six-to-eight sacks a year.
A two-gap read front that asks him to hold the point against down blocks and control two gaps, which turns his height and pad level into a problem every snap.
Logan Hall — Houston Cougars 2021 Highlights
Senior-season reel: gap-shooting quickness, long-arm reps and backfield disruption from multiple alignments.
Logan Hall (Houston) — 2022 NFL Draft film study
Technique breakdown of his hand usage, alignment versatility and anchor limitations.
Logan Hall — Senior Bowl highlights and combine results
All-star week reps against Power Five interior linemen plus his combine testing.
A Texas kid who arrived at Houston as a 230-pound edge and left as a 283-pound interior disruptor, Hall is a developmental success story built on added mass without lost movement. He spent four seasons in the program and only became a full-time force in his last one, when the staff moved him inside and let him attack single blocks instead of setting edges.
The production curve is steep and short. He totaled 28 tackles and five tackles for loss combined across 2018 and 2019, added 23 tackles in an eight-game 2020, then broke out with 47 tackles, 13 tackles for loss and six sacks as a senior in an American Athletic Conference that could not block him one-on-one. Senior Bowl week reinforced the tape: he won reps against Power Five interior linemen. The flags were the one-year sample, the level of competition and an anchor that gave ground when offenses ran at him.
The board slotted him as a top-40 defensive lineman with rare length and scheme versatility, and the question in rooms was whether he was a pass-rushing three-technique or a base end who could not hold up inside. Tampa Bay traded up to the top of the second round and took him at 33 as the long-term replacement for the interior pressure it was about to lose.
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Length
Long arms let him get into a blocker's frame first and keep separation, so he can locate the ball while an interior lineman is still fighting.
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Positional flexibility
Lined up from nose to wide edge for Houston, giving a coordinator a front piece who fits four alignments without changing plans.
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First-step quickness
Gets across the face of guards and into the backfield before they can settle, the source of most of his tackles for loss.
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Frame growth
Added roughly fifty pounds from arrival to senior year without losing movement, evidence of real development and training habits.
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Senior Bowl week
Won consistent one-on-one reps against Power Five interior linemen and answered the level-of-competition question in person.
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Anchor
Pad level rises with his height, so downhill power and double teams can move him off the spot and open the gap he was supposed to fill.
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One-year sample
Everything that made him a top-40 pick came from a single senior season; the three years before it were rotational production.
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Pass-rush plan
Wins with length and quickness more than counters, and blockers who survive the first move often reset the rep against him.
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Competition level
The breakout came in the American Athletic Conference, where he faced far fewer NFL-caliber interior linemen each week.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.88sp50
- Vertical
- 30inp50
- Broad jump
- —in
- Three-cone
- 7.25sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.44sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Houston | 13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | Houston | 12 | 14 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Houston | 8 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | Houston | 13 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 46 | 98 | 7.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2020 and 2021 verified on the cfbstats player page; cfbstats does not publish 2018 or 2019, so those seasons come from the Tankathon prospect ledger. Tankathon lists 48 tackles, 14.0 TFL and 6.5 sacks in 2021 against cfbstats' 47/13.0/6.0; the cfbstats figures are used and the career line reflects them, so it runs one tackle, one TFL and half a sack below Tankathon's total. Season sums match the career line.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Dependable rotational interior lineman with steady snaps, useful disruption and modest sack totals.
Long, versatile front player who becomes a full-time starter capable of rushing inside and playing base end.
Solid pro who never converts length into consistent pressure and settles into a replaceable rotation role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Logan Hall has played two seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a defensive end. He has been a rotational player on the defensive line.
Tampa Bay used Hall as a rotational interior rusher from day one and got 12 tackles with 2.5 sacks in 17 rookie games. Year two went backwards — 22 tackles and half a sack across 16 games, with the pass-rush role shrinking. The 2024 season was the payoff the pick was drafted for: 5.5 sacks and six tackles for loss in a full-time rotation, a real interior threat on passing downs. In 2025 the snaps stayed but the production dipped again to 39 tackles and 1.5 sacks before he left Tampa Bay and signed with Houston. Four seasons in he has played 66 games with 101 tackles, 15 tackles for loss and 10 sacks.
In hindsight this is a starter, not a swing, and the pre-draft flags were the right ones. Hall has never been moved off the field, has played every game available and turned into exactly what the tape promised: a long, disruptive sub-package rusher who holds his rotation spot but never becomes a double-digit-sack problem. Tampa Bay spent a high second-round pick on rotation and got rotation for four years — useful, durable, and a level below what the top of Round 2 should return.
Data note: from Jacksonville