Marcus Allen, the Penn St. S, sits at No. 97 on the consensus board across 5 public boards. The tier model reads him as a role player — 7% elite, 11% starter.
Athleticism
NFL.com's Lance Zierlein: “He's a little limited in terms of his lateral movement and agility and is at his best when allowed to flow downhill.”
Athleticism
NFL.com's Lance Zierlein: “Tape appears to show a lack of long speed and his forty time seems to back that up.”
Production Context
NFL.com's Lance Zierlein: “Allen is a punishing, downhill banger with good size and the attitude of a linebacker in run support.”
Role and scheme fit
The archetype rules read him as a hybrid-S.
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“…Allen is a punishing, downhill banger with good size and the attitude of a linebacker in run support. He's a little limited in terms of his lateral movement and agility and is at his best when allowed to flow downhill. Tape appears to show a lack of long speed and his forty time seems to back that up. Allen's game is a little limited, but he has the toughness and tackle production of a future starter who does his bes…”
Sourced synthesis from 2 scouting sources, not original film. How these reports are written →