Andrew
Vorhees.
Andrew
Vorhees.
USC· 6'6"· 310 lb
"Tearing his ACL at the combine dropped him to round seven, and Baltimore happily stashed a starting-caliber guard — a patient pick that turned into real starts and a classic Ravens value play."Pre-draft read
Vorhees is a 6-6, 310-pound guard with the rare length of a tackle and six years of Pac-12 mileage — 48 starts across both guard spots at USC. He wins with upper-body strength, heavy hands and leg drive once he is latched inside a defender's frame, and he played with a finishing edge that made him the 2022 Morris Trophy winner as the Pac-12's top lineman as voted by opposing players.
The limitations were athletic. He is a short-area mover who labors in space, struggles to redirect against quick interior rushers, and tested as one of the least explosive linemen in the class before tearing his ACL at the Combine. At his best — the 2022 season, protecting Caleb Williams in Lincoln Riley's offense — he was a first-team All-American who simply overpowered people in a phone booth.
Gap/power run scheme that lets a big guard work downhill in tight quarters rather than pull into space
Year 1: redshirt on IR rehabbing; ceiling: starting power-scheme guard
Wide-zone offenses that ask guards to climb and run in space every snap
Baltimore's gap-heavy run game was the ideal landing spot — it minimized the athletic limitations and maximized the power.
IOL Andrew Vorhees, USC
Film breakdown of Vorhees' guard play at USC.
2023 NFL Draft Target: OG Andrew Vorhees
Draft-season tape study of his power and technique.
NFL Draft Prospect: USC OL Andrew Vorhees
Prospect profile with game film from his All-American season.
Vorhees was a six-year USC institution: 55 games, 48 starts, first-team AP and PFF All-America honors in 2022, and the Morris Trophy as the Pac-12's best offensive lineman — an award voted on by the conference's defensive linemen, the men who actually had to face him. In Lincoln Riley's first season he was the steadying force in front of a Heisman-winning quarterback.
The scouting case was the power-and-length profile. At 6-6 with tackle-sized arms, he could overwhelm interior defenders when he got his hands on them, and his experience — nearly 50 career starts — showed in his technique, snap timing and ability to pass off stunts. The concerns were equally documented: limited lateral range, average athletic testing, and a body type that looked more like a tackle playing guard by necessity.
Then came the cruelest break of the 2023 draft cycle: Vorhees tore his ACL during Combine drills in Indianapolis. A projected Day 2 pick went into free fall. Baltimore — the organization that has made a cottage industry of value shopping — traded a 2024 sixth-rounder to Cleveland for the 229th pick and took him, knowing his rookie season was already gone.
It was the draft's purest redshirt bet: stash the All-American, eat the rehab year, and collect a starting-caliber guard a year late at a seventh-round price.
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Proven production
48 starts over six USC seasons; 2022 first-team All-American (AP, PFF) and Morris Trophy winner.
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Rare length for a guard
6-6 frame with tackle-length arms that keep rushers off his chest.
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Power at the point
Heavy hands and real leg drive; sustains and finishes blocks once latched.
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Technique and processing
Snap timing, stunt recognition and hand placement all NFL-ready from 50+ games of experience.
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Finishing edge
Plays through the whistle; respected enough that opposing Pac-12 linemen voted him the conference's best.
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Torn ACL at the Combine
Suffered the tear during drills in Indianapolis, wiping out his entire rookie season.
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Limited athletic range
A phone-booth player who labors in space and struggles to reach second-level targets.
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Lateral quickness
Can be beaten by sudden interior rushers who attack his edges.
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Tweener build
Tackle height without tackle feet; locked to guard, where the length advantage partly neutralizes.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
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- Vertical
- 29inp50
- Broad jump
- 105inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-22 | USC | 55 |
| Career | — | 55 |
Career games/starts per Baltimore Ravens and USC official bios. Tore his ACL during 2023 NFL Combine drills and missed his entire rookie season.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Massive Ravens guard who rotates in as a power-run specialist.
Technically sound power guard who built a decade-plus career on strength and consistency.
Tackle-sized college guard whose athletic limits kept him from sticking as a pro.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The bet paid off almost exactly as drawn. Vorhees spent 2023 rehabbing on injured reserve, debuted in 2024 with 15 appearances and three starts, then won Baltimore's left guard job outright in 2025 and started all 17 games for a perennial contender. A seventh-round pick who becomes a 20-start guard by Year 2 is a scouting department's dream outcome.
The honest retrospective makes Baltimore's front office look even smarter than the result. Everyone in the league knew what Vorhees was before the Combine — a power guard with Day 2 tape and a first-round reputation for toughness. The ACL merely moved the acquisition cost from the third round to the seventh, at the price of one lost season. Eric DeCosta's willingness to draft-and-stash an injured All-American is now a staple of draft-strategy case studies, and Vorhees' emergence as a full-time starter is the proof of concept.