Dawand
Jones.
Dawand
Jones.
Ohio St.· 6'8"· 374 lb· 5.35s 40
"A right tackle whose 36-inch arms end rushes before they start, drafted in the fourth round on the bet that length could cover for feet that never fully caught up."Pre-draft read
Jones is a right tackle by trade whose calling card is mass and length used as territory: at 6-foot-8 and roughly 374 pounds with 36-plus-inch arms, he covers ground with his hands rather than his feet. In pass protection he sets shallow, lands the inside hand first and lets the length end the rush before it turns the corner. When he strikes on time, rushers are stopped at the point of contact and never get to a second move.
In the run game he is a displacement blocker, best on down blocks, duo and short-yardage angles where he can lean and grow into contact. The athletic ceiling is limited laterally, so his signature is not range but finality: the reps he wins are over immediately, and defenders who try to bull him disappear.
Gap and duo-heavy run game with a defined right-tackle role, ideally a play-action passing attack that limits long-hold, wide-set protections.
Year 1: plug-in starting right tackle in a gap-scheme run game. Ceiling: a decade-long starting tackle whose length neutralizes premier edge rushers when healthy.
An outside-zone-only offense that asks tackles to reach defenders on the move and climb to second-level linebackers in space every snap, which puts his lateral quickness under constant stress.
His value spikes in short-yardage and goal-line packages where mass alone changes the math.
Dawand Jones Official 2023 Highlights
Full college highlight reel showing the length, anchor and finishing at right tackle.
They Call Him Big Thanos!
Feature on the frame and the displacement power that defined his Ohio State tape.
Ohio State OT Dawand Jones - NFL Draft - Cleveland Browns
Draft-profile clip covering the fall to pick 111 and the Cleveland fit.
Jones came out of Ohio State as one of the largest linemen ever to be seriously evaluated, a former basketball frame that had been converted into a legitimate Big Ten right tackle. The evaluation was never about whether the traits existed; it was about how often he could apply them on time.
He played three real seasons in Columbus, starting 11 games in 2021 and 11 more in 2022 on an offense that asked its tackles to protect a first-round quarterback. On tape the wins were emphatic and the losses were of a type: speed-to-power that arrived while he was still building his set, and inside counters that got under his pads because he plays tall by construction. He ran 5.35 in the forty at the Combine and did not post agility numbers, which left the short-area question open on paper as well as on film.
The board had him in the second round in consensus mocks, so his slide to the fourth was a stated verdict on movement skills and on the conditioning risk that comes with that mass. Cleveland, running a wide-zone-flavored offense with a heavy gap element, took the size at 111 and bet that a defined right-tackle role would let the length do the work.
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Rare length
36-plus-inch arms let him control the edge of the rush before a defender can reach his frame, ending reps at first contact.
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Anchor by mass
bull rushers get no depth against 374 pounds that sits down and absorbs power without conceding the pocket.
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Down-block finisher
on duo and short-yardage angles he displaces defensive linemen off the spot and finishes them into the ground.
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Hand placement inside
he strikes with the inside hand first and locks on, and once he latches the rep is effectively over.
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Proven level
two seasons of starting tackle snaps in the Big Ten against NFL edge rushers, with the tape holding up in big games.
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Short-area quickness
lateral agility is limited, and wide speed rushers who threaten the corner force him to open early and lose leverage.
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Pad level
he plays tall by construction, and rushers who get under his hands can knock him off balance with inside counters.
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Conditioning risk
the frame requires constant maintenance, and late-drive reps showed slower resets and softer hands.
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Redirect and recovery
once beaten inside he has little margin to reclaim position, so his misses are total rather than partial.
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| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Ohio State | — |
| 2020 | Ohio State | 5 |
| 2021 | Ohio State | 13 |
| 2022 | Ohio State | 12 |
| Career | — | 30 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Games and starts come from Sports Reference season logs; his 2019 appearance total is not confirmed by a second source and is left null rather than zero-filled.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Tall, heavy right tackle who wins with length and power and lives with the agility limitations.
The realized version of the archetype: a massive tackle whose length makes him a starter on a good line when he is available.
Elite mass that never fully stabilizes as a full-time tackle and settles into a swing or interior role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Cleveland got exactly what the pick was for in year one. Jones stepped in as the starting right tackle, made nine starts as a rookie and landed on the PFWA All-Rookie Team, protecting a quarterback carousel with length that held up against real edge rushers. In 2024 the Browns moved him to left tackle, and after seven starts a fractured leg in New Orleans in November put him on injured reserve and ended the year. He returned as a starter in 2025 and lasted three games: a Week 3 knee injury against Green Bay, an LCL tear with a hamstring avulsion, required surgery and shut him down again.
The honest retrospective is that the fourth-round call was correct on value and unresolved on projection. The traits translated immediately, which is why a Day 3 tackle was starting in September of his rookie year, but the body has not stayed on the field long enough to answer the questions the board had. He reworked the final year of his rookie deal in May 2026 to keep a roster spot and entered the season behind a first-round rookie at left tackle. That is where he sits: a legitimate NFL starter's traits on a player whose availability, not his ability, is the open file.