Thayer
Munford.
Thayer
Munford.
Ohio St.· 6'6"· 328 lb· 5.39s 40
"A first-team All-American and 45-game Ohio State starter who fell to the 238th pick because of his testing, and has spent four seasons as exactly what that slot buys: a swing tackle with 20 NFL starts."Pre-draft read
A 6-5 3/4, 328-pound tackle with 35 1/8-inch arms and a seven-foot wingspan who started 45 games in the toughest offensive line room in college football. He is a heavy-handed, wide-based blocker whose value shows up in the run game, where he can wash defensive ends down the line and stay attached through the whistle.
The athletic testing is where the seventh-round grade comes from. He ran 5.39 with a 7.74 three-cone and a 22-inch vertical, pedestrian numbers that show up on tape as a slow set against speed off the edge. Wide rushers can get his shoulders turned, and he recovers with strength rather than feet. Teams saw a first-team All-American whose traits fit better at guard or right tackle than on a quarterback's blind side.
A gap and duo run scheme that lets him work down blocks and combos instead of asking him to reach defenders in space.
Year 1: sixth lineman and jumbo package body. Ceiling: a starting right tackle or guard in a power run offense.
A pass-heavy offense on an island at left tackle, where NFL speed rushers will beat his pass set to the corner every week.
Las Vegas used him at both tackle spots and inside, which is the honest version of the role.
2022 NFL Draft: Thayer Munford, round 7, Las Vegas Raiders
Ohio State career recap and the draft selection.
Thayer Munford's NFL draft profile
Pass-set and run-blocking tape from his super senior season.
Tale of the tape: why Munford should start
Film study of his Las Vegas snaps at tackle.
Munford grew up in Cincinnati and played three years at La Salle High School, helping the Lancers win consecutive Division II state championships in 2014 and 2015 and earning third-team all-state as a junior. Before his senior year he moved to Massillon, Ohio and transferred to Washington High School, coached by his former La Salle coach Nate Moore, after Moore and his wife became his legal guardians.
The transfer was initially ruled a recruiting violation by the state athletic association, which cost him most of his senior season; the ruling was later reversed and he played the final three regular-season games and a playoff game. A four-star recruit, he chose Ohio State over Kentucky, Iowa and Pittsburgh.
He played as a reserve in 2017 and never gave the job back, starting 13 games in 2018, 13 in 2019, seven in 2020 and 12 as a super senior in 2021: 45 career starts in 58 games. He was a four-time all-Big Ten honoree, first team in 2020 and 2021, a first-team All-American by the AFCA in 2021, a team captain and the recipient of the program's Block O jersey for toughness and character. He blocked for four straight outright Big Ten champions and for J.K. Dobbins' 2,000-yard season, and returned in 2021 specifically to finish his degree.
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Enormous starting résumé
45 starts and 58 games at Ohio State, with four consecutive outright Big Ten title teams behind him.
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Rare length for the price
35 1/8-inch arms and a seven-foot wingspan let him keep rushers off his frame once he lands.
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Proven run blocker
he cleared the way for J.K. Dobbins' 2,000-yard season, the first ever by an Ohio State back.
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Positional flexibility
he has played both tackle spots and guard, exactly what late-round linemen need to make a roster.
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Character the program built around
2021 captain and Block O jersey recipient, awarded for toughness and accountability.
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Poor athletic testing
a 5.39 forty, a 7.74 three-cone and a 22-inch vertical are bottom-tier numbers for an NFL tackle.
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Slow pass sets
speed rushers can attack his outside shoulder before he gets depth, forcing him to recover with his hands.
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Waist-bending under pressure
when he reaches, his pad level rises and he loses the leverage that makes him effective.
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Injury history
a back problem cost him the end of the 2018 season and he has missed stretches in most years since.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.39sp50
- Vertical
- 22inp50
- Broad jump
- 104inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ohio State | 10 |
| 2018 | Ohio State | 13 |
| 2019 | Ohio State | 14 |
| 2020 | Ohio State | 7 |
| 2021 | Ohio State | 12 |
| Career | — | 58 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics, so only games and starts are tabulated. The per-season rows come from The Football Database and sum to 56 games and 45 starts; Ohio State's official bio credits him with 58 games and 45 starts, and the official career figure is the one published here with the discrepancy left visible rather than silently reconciled. The bio's own breakdown of starts by season, 13 in 2018, 13 in 2019, seven in 2020 and 12 in 2021, matches the table exactly.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Raiders developmental tackle who logged real starts without ever winning the job outright.
Long swing tackle who turned length and reliability into a decade of NFL employment.
Big-framed tackle whose lack of foot speed kept him on practice squads.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Las Vegas took him 238th and got a swing lineman. He appeared in all 17 games as a rookie in 2022 with four starts and 370 offensive snaps, then had his best season in 2023: 15 games and ten starts, most of them at tackle. In 2024 he was back in the rotation with 14 appearances and four starts.
The Raiders released him on August 27, 2025 after three seasons. New England signed him to the practice squad two days later, Cleveland signed him off that practice squad on September 24, released him October 13 and brought him back to their own practice squad two days after that, and the Patriots signed him to the active roster on November 25. He finished 2025 with five appearances and two starts in New England and became an unrestricted free agent on March 11, 2026. Through four years: 51 games, 20 starts. A first-team All-American who lasted until the 238th pick has done exactly what that draft slot promises, staying employed as a swing tackle without ever locking down a job.