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Ojomo.
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Ojomo.
Texas· 6'2"· 292 lb· 5.04s 40
"A 21-year-old five-year college veteran slipped to round seven on tweener traits — then became a rotational piece of a championship-caliber Eagles defense, one of the best value picks of the class."Pre-draft read
Ojomo wins with length and timing. His arms measure 34 and a half inches, 87th percentile for an interior lineman, and he uses them to establish separation on contact rather than absorbing a block and working out of it. The first step is genuinely explosive for 292 pounds, and his hand usage was more refined at Texas than most Day 3 defensive linemen ever show, letting him play both three-technique and five-technique.
The weight is the honest limitation. He is light for the interior, and when his pad level rises he gets displaced by double teams in the run game. That is the difference between a rotational pass rusher and a three-down player, and it is the reason his college production never matched the traits.
Attacking four-man front that rotates interior linemen heavily and asks them to penetrate rather than two-gap
Year 1: rotational pass rusher on obvious passing downs; ceiling: primary interior sub-package rusher
Two-gap 3-4 scheme that requires holding the point against double teams on early downs
Philadelphia''s deep rotation is exactly the environment that let him develop without being exposed on early downs.
The Texas career was steady and quiet. He appeared in three games as a true freshman in 2018 without recording a statistic, then built slowly: 13 tackles with three tackles for loss in 2019, 21 tackles and two sacks in 2020, 29 tackles in 2021, and a senior year of 33 tackles with 5.5 tackles for loss and three sacks. Fifty career games, never a headline number.
The workout said something different. A 9.28 Relative Athletic Score, 29 bench reps, a 33-inch vertical and those arms, all at 21 years old on draft day. Youth plus length plus explosion is the exact combination teams claim to pay for.
Most analysts had him inside the top 100 and projected a third or fourth round landing. Instead the weight concerns and the modest production pushed him to the last hour of the draft, where Philadelphia used the 249th pick on a player who had been evaluated 150 slots higher. Even at the time it read like a bet other teams had talked themselves out of.
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Exceptional length
Thirty-four and a half inch arms rank in the 87th percentile and let him control blockers before they reach his frame.
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Explosive first step
He beats interior linemen off the snap, which is how a 292-pound tackle survives inside at the NFL level.
- 03
Refined hand usage
More technically developed than nearly any Day 3 defensive lineman, with a real plan on every pass rush rep.
- 04
Positional versatility
Capable of aligning at three-technique or five-technique, which multiplies his value in a rotation.
- 05
Age and testing profile
Twenty-one on draft day with a 9.28 RAS and 29 bench reps, an unusually high developmental ceiling.
- 01
Undersized for the interior
At 292 pounds he lacks the mass to hold a gap against NFL guard-center combinations.
- 02
Pad level inconsistency
He rises out of his stance and gets washed by double teams once his leverage disappears.
- 03
Modest college production
Five sacks in four seasons at Texas is thin output for a player with this athletic profile.
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Run defense limits
The anchor issues make him a situational player until he adds functional playing strength.
Relative Athletic Score (Kent Lee Platte) benchmarks combine/pro-day numbers against every measured prospect at the position since 1987. 10.00 is elite; 5.00 is average.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.04sp50
- Vertical
- 33inp50
- Broad jump
- 112inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- 29repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Texas | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Texas | 10 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Texas | 12 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Texas | 12 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 50 | 96 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Season lines verified against cfbstats. He appeared in three games as a true freshman in 2018 without recording a statistic; that season is noted rather than zero-filled into the table.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- Four-year Texas defensive line contributor across 50 games
- Declared for the draft at age 21
Rotational interior athlete who becomes a valuable sub-package rusher on a championship line.
Undersized interior rusher whose quickness and hands turn him into a full-time disruptor.
Traits player who never anchors well enough to earn early-down snaps.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Ojomo worked into Philadelphia's defensive line rotation, recorded a combined sack on Deshaun Watson in October 2024 and sacked Matthew Stafford in the NFC Divisional Round in January 2025 during the run to a 40-22 Super Bowl LIX win over Kansas City. He broke out in 2025 with five sacks by mid-December and entered 2026, the final year of his rookie contract, as a core rotational lineman with extension talks reported.
The bet paid. Ojomo worked into Philadelphia's defensive line rotation early, recorded a combined sack on Deshaun Watson in October 2024, and then produced the play that stuck: a sack of Matthew Stafford in the NFC Divisional Round in January 2025 during the run that ended with a 40-22 win over Kansas City in Super Bowl LIX. Seventh-round picks who play meaningful snaps in a Super Bowl are rare enough; he was part of the rotation, not a jersey on the sideline.
Then 2025 turned him into a real player. He posted five sacks by mid-December in an expanded role, and by the summer of 2026 the Philadelphia press was writing about him as a rising defensive lineman entering the final year of his rookie deal with an extension conversation underway. That is the outcome the arm length and the age always suggested and that the pad level was supposed to prevent. Of every pick in the 240s in this class, he is the one who turned into an actual NFL asset.