Defensive tackle DT
Sacks + TFLs + Senior Bowl. Athletic testing weighted higher for IDL than EDGE.
Likeliest career, by the outcome model.
How many defensive tackles land in each career bucket as the model's single most likely finish. This is a different question from the board grades below — a prospect can be a Day 3 grade and still have “starter” as his likeliest outcome. The tails (elite, bust) are where the model separates; the middle two buckets sit close to a coin flip.
The board.
All 20 defensive tackles with a draftable grade on Draftanomics's 2020 board, tier by tier.
The blue-chip shelf is one name deep: Derrick Brown out of Auburn, pegged at No. 6 overall. The drop to Javon Kinlaw is 12 projected picks: a step, not a cliff.
The first-round shelf is one name deep: Javon Kinlaw out of South Carolina, pegged at No. 18 overall. Then the board falls off a cliff — 38 projected picks between Kinlaw and Raekwon Davis, the next name down.
The Day 2 tier runs 5 deep, opening with Raekwon Davis out of Alabama at No. 56 and closing with Ross Blacklock at No. 96. The drop behind Blacklock is the story — DaVon Hamilton does not come off the board for another 23 picks. Notably clean, too — nobody in the group trips the bust model, which has real signal at defensive tackle.
This is where the class lives: 13 defensive tackles carry a Day 3 grade, with DaVon Hamilton out of Ohio St. at the front of the line at No. 119 overall. The room is higher on Leki Fotu than we are: consensus No. 69 to our No. 202.