Jared
Wilson.
Jared
Wilson.
Georgia· 6'3"· 310 lb· 4.84s 40
"One year as Georgia's starting center was all the tape there was, and it was enough — Wilson tested like an athlete and played like a technician, with the only real question being how much a single season can tell you."Pre-draft read
Wilson plays center with a light first step and heavy hands, an unusual combination at 6-3, 310. He gets out of his stance quickly enough to reach a shaded nose on zone concepts and has the body control to climb and cut off a second-level linebacker without lunging. His 4.84 forty confirmed what the tape suggested: this is a genuine movement athlete at the position.
Where he wins is at the point of contact. His hands are accurate, he re-fits when a defender swipes, and his anchor holds against interior power despite not being a mass-based blocker. He is quick to identify pressure and set protection, which is the part of the job that separates a center from a guard.
This offense runs a traditional gap/duo power run game, prioritizing strong interior blocking and schemes that establish the run.
Immediate starter at center; ceiling to be a long-term anchor and leader of the offensive line.
An Air Raid or spread-option scheme that relies heavily on athletic, undersized linemen for quick passes and zone blocking.
Wilson's power and football IQ make him a strong fit for a run-heavy, pro-style offense.
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Wilson projected as an immediate starting center for a team willing to accept a one-year sample. He is a movement blocker with core strength, comfortable making line calls, and he tested at the position's athletic ceiling, which is why he came off the board on the second day despite the thin résumé.
The evaluation problem was simple arithmetic. He sat behind an established Georgia line before finally starting in 2024, so his file consists of one season against SEC defensive fronts rather than three. What that season showed was encouraging on every axis that matters for the position: he reached and sustained on zone, he anchored against interior power, and he ran a Power Five protection without the mental errors that usually mark a first-year starter. Offensive linemen produce no box-score statistics, so the grade rested entirely on reps and testing, and both pointed the same direction.
New England took him at 95 with a starting job available rather than promised. The fit questions were about scheme preference — his athletic profile is a natural for a zone-based run game, and he is asked to do more in space than a pure gap offense would require — and about whether one year of tape is enough to trust with the middle of an offensive line.
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Movement athlete
His 4.84 forty is elite for a center and shows up on zone reaches and second-level climbs on tape.
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Accurate hands
His initial punch lands inside and he re-fits cleanly when a defender tries to swipe him off the block.
- 03
Anchor without mass
He holds up against interior power at 310 pounds by using leverage rather than pure weight.
- 04
Protection calls
He identified pressure and set protection in an SEC offense as a first-year starter without recurring errors.
- 05
Body control
He climbs and cuts off linebackers without lunging, keeping his feet under him in space on wide zone.
- 01
One-year sample
A single season of starting reps means his answers to unfamiliar fronts and pressure looks are still unwritten.
- 02
Not a displacer
He seals and sustains rather than driving defenders backward, which limits him in a heavy gap-scheme run game.
- 03
Snap-to-set timing
His hands can arrive a beat late against a nose who fires immediately off the snap into his chest.
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Power ceiling
Against the league's heaviest interior linemen, the leverage-based anchor gets tested in ways SEC reps did not.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.84sp50
- Vertical
- 32inp50
- Broad jump
- 112inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- 4.56sp50
- Bench
- —rep
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics, so there is no season table here. Games and starts are only listed when an official source publishes them.
An athletic zone-scheme center who becomes a quality starter without ever being a mass-based mauler.
A decade-long starting center who runs an offensive line and turns athletic traits into Pro Bowl-level consistency.
A starter by default who is exposed against interior power and eventually loses the job to a bigger body.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Wilson walked into a New England offensive line that had been rebuilt in consecutive draft classes and was given the chance to compete for the center job immediately as a rookie in 2025. That is the outcome a third-round center wants and the one his profile deserved: no redshirt, no positional conversion, just reps at the spot he was drafted to play. The early professional tape reflected the college file — comfortable in space, functional at the point, with the mistakes concentrated in the unfamiliar pressure looks that a one-year college starter has not yet catalogued.
The honest retrospective is that the pick is still being decided by the thing that made it risky in the first place. Centers with one season of starting experience get graded on their third year, not their first, because the position is as much about accumulated recognition as about blocking. Everything physical checked out — the athleticism is real, the anchor is real, the technique holds up. What Wilson needs is volume, and the only way to get it is to keep the job long enough to see every front twice. On the current trajectory, that is a reasonable expectation rather than a hope.
Data note: from Kansas City