Why Tyler Booker Is The BEST Offensive Lineman In The 2025 NFL Draft

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Joe DeLeone and Ryan Roberts break down which offensive lineman among Josh Simmons, Will Campbell, Tyler Booker, and Kelvin Banks is considered to be the best offensive line prospect in the 2025 NFL Draft

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00:00Most NFL teams don't have LSU's Will Campbell as their top offensive line prospect. Here's who it actually is.

00:10Yeah, I've talked to several teams and there is a little bit of a caveat here. This was before the

00:16testing began, but there were several teams around the NFL that I've been told Tyler Booker from

00:21Alabama is the top overall offensive lineman on the board. Now, those conversations are super

00:25fascinating, Joe, because typically tackles rise, guards fall a little bit, but I just thought it

00:30was super interesting to know that teams around the league, even though people are still starting

00:34to get super cold on Tyler Booker because he's not a tremendous athlete from a testing perspective,

00:39he is still a guy that the NFL really likes. But can I say this? Can I say this? If you

00:44watched Tyler Booker on film and expected him to be this elite athlete, a guy that was going to

00:49test out of the gym, that was a false conversation in your head. Like he was never going to be that

00:54guy. You're driving Tyler Booker for the tenacity, for the physicality, for the power, for those

00:59types of things. So will he be the first offensive lineman off the board? That's a question, but it

01:04does sound like there are several teams around the league, a decent amount I would say at this

01:08point, that have Tyler Booker from Alabama as their top graded overall offensive lineman in the 2025

01:13class. Yeah, Will Campbell tested a lot better than I was anticipating. I still have flexibility,

01:19question marks. It doesn't mean for me that it's going to hurt his impact in the NFL. It's why I

01:25believe he's a guard. Kelvin Banks, we knew was going to be a pretty good athlete and that he was

01:30going to move pretty well. And his testing numbers overall were pretty strong. He had some of the

01:35best jumps out of any of the offensive linemen. But Tyler Booker, despite the testing, I'm not

01:42worried about it. The thing with the offensive lineman is, yes, it helps us to have the context

01:46of like, oh, this guy can generate force really quickly with his lower body when he jumps. Or

01:50this guy can run in a straight line with Armand Membaugh, who we knew was going to be a fluid

01:55mover in space. Same thing for Jared Wilson, who had the fastest 40 time of any of the linemen

01:59in the center from Georgia. But Tyler Booker, if you watched him during the damn drills,

02:03you saw what Tyler Booker was, which is having really the best base and the best feet out of

02:09any of the linemen. I don't care what anybody says. He is the best anchor. He's got the best

02:13leg drive in the run game. It does not shock me that NFL teams are believing that. And I don't

02:19think any are going to be pushed off of this fact that he didn't test super explosively.

02:25There are guards do not need to be. It's one of those positions where guards do not need to be

02:30in that upper rare elite category for testing. They pointed out and they compared him on the

02:35broadcast to Quentin Nelson. And Quentin Nelson is a great jumper and he generates a lot of force,

02:41but he didn't run a 40. So like we probably would have tested in a similar range as Booker.

02:46Yeah. Well, what makes Tyler Booker so impressive is we talk about the physicality. We talk about

02:52the tenacity, Joe, when he was being interviewed, I mean, over the, over a few months, like I'm

02:58not even talking about just his combine availability. He says stuff like, I want to

03:02take the soul from people, right? Like I want to make them physically depressed. Like I love that

03:09in an offensive lineman. So you are not drafting Tyler Booker to be a guy that you're going to run

03:15like a bunch of a bunch of screens and be able to get him out on the perimeter as a blocker.

03:20Like that's just not his game overall. You're asking him to dominate dudes in a phone booth,

03:26to be able to be a mover at the point of attack inside zone and that type of thing,

03:29working up to the second level. And he can do that stuff really well. So in this class that I

03:34think there's a lot of uncertainty, there is a very high floor player in Tyler Booker. If he

03:40ends up being worse than a solid to good NFL offensive lineman, I'll be very surprised,

03:46but I do think he has a lot of upside in the right system and in the right scheme.

03:50And he's showcased himself from a, from an interview perspective, from an availability

03:56perspective and from a physicality perspective that there's a whole lot to like a Tyler Booker,

04:01even if he's not going to run a fast 40 yard dash.

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