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HEIGHT: 6’6 1/8″
WEIGHT: 316
HAND: 10 1/8″
ARM: 35 1/8″
40-YARD DASH: DNP
3-CONE: DNP
SHUTTLE: DNP
VERTICAL: 33″
BROAD: 8’11”
POSITIVES
— Tall, thick receive with gargantuan arm length. Might per chance match all the plot throughout the defensive entrance.
— Sturdy punch. Can knock OL lend a hand with relative ease if he will get a neat strike.
— Tall lateral glide for his size. Can slump through gaps and work across the line of scrimmage comfortably.
— Genuine glide skills in declare. Can enact performs in the backfield.
— Above-reasonable eyes and self-discipline. Does effectively to play with correct leverage and gap integrity.
NEGATIVES
— Unhurried off the ball. Might per chance no longer be one to weigh down offensive linemen out of the gate.
— Struggles to resolve and anchor. Has some problems discovering his snide after shifting round.
— Tends to lean and lunge to commence contact. Will get himself off-balance.
— Not a dapper cross-rusher at this stage. Has the athletic possible to receive there, however will need time and quality instructing.
2021 STATISTICS
13 G, 43 TOT, 12 TFL, 9 SK, 1 PD
NOTES
— 3-enormous title recruit in 2016. Came out of high college listed at ideal 250 pounds.
— Four-300 and sixty five days starter.
— Six-300 and sixty five days participant who done on the added 300 and sixty five days of eligibility granted because of COVID-19.
— 2021 first-crew All-Tremendous 12.
OVERALL
Eyioma Uwazurike is constructed delight in a nostril guard, however he initiatives to address a special just in the NFL.
Despite a massive 6’6″ and 320-pound physique, Uwazurike wins essentially along with his glide skills. He does no longer fire off the ball in particular effectively, which is grand to square along with his quality soar attempting out at the NFL combine, however the leisure of his athletic profile appears to be good on movie.
Uwazurike flows comfortably across the line of scrimmage and has heaps of slay/originate switch of direction skill for a participant his size. At any time when he will get free in declare, he continually has the fee and agility to enact performs. Those skills normally ever translate to his cross-speeding reps, unfortunately, however the functionality is there.
Uwazurike’s anchor complicates his journey protection profile. Though he strikes effectively along with his palms and may per chance weigh down blockers that plot, his decrease physique too continually fails him. Uwazurike’s snide continually will get out of whack, leading him to both lunge when he goes to strike or receive thoroughly knocked off-balance when offensive linemen latch onto him. That is probably going segment of why he did now not essentially play over the center at Iowa Relate regardless of his physique.
Uwazurike is easiest when allowed to play on or over the tackle, that plot he wants a snide 3-4 entrance that can permit him to settle on out so. He desires to work on being in a situation to resolve and anchor besides search out a cross-speeding play earlier than entering accurate into a starting just, however he has enough athleticism and journey-protection savvy to search out a rotational just internal his first few years.
GRADE: 6.1 (Excessive-level Developmental Prospect – fifth Round)
PRO COMPARISON: Higher Christian Covington
Written by B/R NFL Scout Derrik Klassen