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Charles Jagusah

IOL · Notre Dame · 2027 NFL Draft class

Limited public coverage2 contributing sources·Board as of August 31, 2026
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Revised preseason edition · September 6, 20264 min readReport role: IOL · Notre Dame

Master scouting report

Charles Jagusah is a developmental offensive-line prospect whose physical appeal has been easier to establish than a sustained college evaluation. Notre Dame lists him at 6-foot-5 and 330 pounds, and Sam Teets identifies exceptional athletic tools. Injuries have prevented those tools from receiving an extended test. The useful NFL projection is therefore an interior development candidate with tackle experience, rather than a finished starter whose readiness can be inferred from size, recruiting standing or a handful of prominent appearances.

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01The actual game history

Jagusah appeared twice in 2023 and started the Sun Bowl at left tackle. Notre Dame’s 2024 season history lists three appearances: special-teams work against Georgia, offensive action against Penn State and a guard start against Ohio State. The distinction matters because that championship-game assignment was not another tackle start. He missed the 2025 season. The record offers meaningful exposure to demanding settings, but five college appearances and two starts remain a very small basis for projecting an NFL offensive lineman.

02Why the development is worth pursuing

Teets’ evaluation emphasizes athletic ability while also recognizing how little college work is available. Jagusah’s high-school history includes an unbeaten state wrestling championship season, which adds context to his athletic background. It does not prove NFL blocking leverage or hand usage. The attraction is a large athlete with a background requiring balance and physical coordination. The next step is seeing those qualities expressed repeatedly through football-specific assignments, where the defender can attack a different edge or angle on the next snap.

03Keeping the interior projection grounded

The two starting assignments show exposure to both tackle and guard, but exposure should not be mistaken for interchangeable proficiency. An interior role would emphasize quick contact, balance against power and coordination with adjacent blockers. Tackle places different demands on space and the width of the protection. Jagusah’s frame makes the interior a sensible developmental starting point, while his earlier tackle work remains relevant background. A team would still need enough current play to decide where his movement and control create the most dependable advantage.

04From athletic tools to a repeatable set

The key protection task is turning the athletic foundation into the same useful starting position repeatedly. A blocker must arrive balanced enough to respond to power, then remain able to redirect if the defender changes course. Limited playing time makes it difficult to distinguish a promising individual response from a dependable pattern. Jagusah’s projection should therefore prioritize consistency of the assignment before expanding the range of opponents or positions he is expected to handle. The athletic appeal is a reason to invest in that development, not a replacement for it.

05The interrupted development

Ethan Laslo’s reporting describes a summer 2025 UTV accident, an arm injury and a subsequent procedure that kept Jagusah out for the season. In a later update reported by Matt Zemek, Marcus Freeman expressed belief that he would play again but did not provide a definite timetable. That leaves return timing unresolved in this edition. It would be inappropriate to supply a recovery date from optimism alone. For roster evaluation, availability determines when the physical tools can become a sustained football sample.

The case for the player

Strengths

  • A substantial frame and highly regarded athletic tools justify continued offensive-line development.

  • Actual starts at tackle and guard provide a beginning for evaluating more than one offensive-line role.

The questions that remain

Concerns

  • Five college appearances leave technique consistency and readiness much less established than the physical profile.

  • The injury interruption and unresolved return timetable remain central to the near-term evaluation.

Building the fit

NFL role and scheme fit

The responsible starting point is developmental interior depth with the opportunity to reassess tackle once sufficient current play is available. A patient roster plan would allow technique and availability to establish the role together. Promoting him directly into a broad starting projection would ask the team to assume answers that the interrupted college record has not yet supplied.

The Draftanomics view

Bottom line

Jagusah remains interesting because the tools are substantial, not because the uncertainty is small. His next meaningful advance is a return to sustained football work that demonstrates where those tools function most reliably. Until then, the projection should stay ambitious about development and measured about readiness.

Sources & edition

The Draftanomics assessment, synthesized from attributed reporting. Role and development language expresses scouting opinion.

Preseason assessment using college evidence through 2025 and subsequent roster, practice and scouting reporting. This edition does not evaluate 2026 regular-season games or claim a new Draftanomics film study.

Edition reviewed September 7, 2026. Corrects position and participation history, removes an invented full 2025 season and expands the developmental assessment while preserving the unresolved return timetable.

The original August edition remains preserved. This is a revised Draftanomics assessment, with supporting sources attached to each statement.

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Sources for scouting overview
  1. House assessment

    Charles Jagusah is a developmental offensive-line prospect whose physical appeal has been easier to establish than a sustained college evaluation.

  2. House assessment

    Notre Dame lists him at 6-foot-5 and 330 pounds, and Sam Teets identifies exceptional athletic tools.

  3. House assessment

    Injuries have prevented those tools from receiving an extended test.

  4. House assessment

    The useful NFL projection is therefore an interior development candidate with tackle experience, rather than a finished starter whose readiness can be inferred from size, recruiting standing or a handful of prominent appearances.

Sources for the actual game history
  1. Reported fact

    Jagusah appeared twice in 2023 and started the Sun Bowl at left tackle.

  2. Reported fact

    Notre Dame’s 2024 season history lists three appearances: special-teams work against Georgia, offensive action against Penn State and a guard start against Ohio State.

  3. Reported fact

    The distinction matters because that championship-game assignment was not another tackle start.

  4. Reported fact

    He missed the 2025 season.

  5. House assessment

    The record offers meaningful exposure to demanding settings, but five college appearances and two starts remain a very small basis for projecting an NFL offensive lineman.

Sources for why the development is worth pursuing
  1. House assessment

    Teets’ evaluation emphasizes athletic ability while also recognizing how little college work is available.

  2. House assessment

    Jagusah’s high-school history includes an unbeaten state wrestling championship season, which adds context to his athletic background.

  3. House assessment

    It does not prove NFL blocking leverage or hand usage.

  4. House assessment

    The attraction is a large athlete with a background requiring balance and physical coordination.

  5. House assessment

    The next step is seeing those qualities expressed repeatedly through football-specific assignments, where the defender can attack a different edge or angle on the next snap.

Sources for keeping the interior projection grounded
  1. House assessment

    The two starting assignments show exposure to both tackle and guard, but exposure should not be mistaken for interchangeable proficiency.

  2. House assessment

    An interior role would emphasize quick contact, balance against power and coordination with adjacent blockers.

  3. House assessment

    Tackle places different demands on space and the width of the protection.

  4. House assessment

    Jagusah’s frame makes the interior a sensible developmental starting point, while his earlier tackle work remains relevant background.

  5. House assessment

    A team would still need enough current play to decide where his movement and control create the most dependable advantage.

Sources for from athletic tools to a repeatable set
  1. House assessment

    The key protection task is turning the athletic foundation into the same useful starting position repeatedly.

  2. House assessment

    A blocker must arrive balanced enough to respond to power, then remain able to redirect if the defender changes course.

  3. House assessment

    Limited playing time makes it difficult to distinguish a promising individual response from a dependable pattern.

  4. House assessment

    Jagusah’s projection should therefore prioritize consistency of the assignment before expanding the range of opponents or positions he is expected to handle.

  5. House assessment

    The athletic appeal is a reason to invest in that development, not a replacement for it.

Sources for the interrupted development
  1. House assessment

    Ethan Laslo’s reporting describes a summer 2025 UTV accident, an arm injury and a subsequent procedure that kept Jagusah out for the season.

  2. House assessment

    In a later update reported by Matt Zemek, Marcus Freeman expressed belief that he would play again but did not provide a definite timetable.

  3. House assessment

    That leaves return timing unresolved in this edition.

  4. House assessment

    It would be inappropriate to supply a recovery date from optimism alone.

  5. House assessment

    For roster evaluation, availability determines when the physical tools can become a sustained football sample.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    A substantial frame and highly regarded athletic tools justify continued offensive-line development.

Sources for strength
  1. House assessment

    Actual starts at tackle and guard provide a beginning for evaluating more than one offensive-line role.

Sources for concern
  1. House assessment

    Five college appearances leave technique consistency and readiness much less established than the physical profile.

Sources for concern
  1. House assessment

    The injury interruption and unresolved return timetable remain central to the near-term evaluation.

Sources for nfl role and scheme fit
  1. House assessment

    The responsible starting point is developmental interior depth with the opportunity to reassess tackle once sufficient current play is available.

  2. House assessment

    A patient roster plan would allow technique and availability to establish the role together.

  3. House assessment

    Promoting him directly into a broad starting projection would ask the team to assume answers that the interrupted college record has not yet supplied.

Sources for bottom line
  1. House assessment

    Jagusah remains interesting because the tools are substantial, not because the uncertainty is small.

  2. House assessment

    His next meaningful advance is a return to sustained football work that demonstrates where those tools function most reliably.

  3. House assessment

    Until then, the projection should stay ambitious about development and measured about readiness.

College record & draft context

College production, measurables, experience, and the prospect's place on the sealed Public Draft Board.

Public Draft Board

Limited public coverage

Not enough sources for a consensus rank. 2 of the 3 contributing public sources required for a numbered rank.

No overall rank, position rank, or movement is assigned.

Sealed snapshot as of August 31, 2026 · equal-weight aggregation of public boards, minimum 3 sources for a rank · The Public Draft Board

College production

No position-appropriate production category is included in this dataset for OT; no statistics are shown for this position.

Evidence notes

  • No position-appropriate production category is included in this dataset, so no college statistics are shown.
  • The newest college season in the retained data is 2025; the 2026 season is not yet included.
  • No verified athletic testing is included in the sealed dataset for this prospect.
  • Public-source coverage is limited to 2 contributing boards, so no consensus rank is assigned.

Each note restates a displayed fact. None is a forecast of NFL performance.

Experience and measurements

Listed height
6'5"
Listed weight
330 lb
Class
Sophomore
Age
Not in dataset
Recorded school
Notre Dame
Former school
Not in dataset
Hometown
Rock Island, IL
Jersey
#56
Recruiting stars
4-star
Recruiting rank
#62 nationally

"Not in dataset" means the value is absent from the sealed dossier dataset, not that it does not exist.

Athletic testing

Not included in the sealed dataset. No combine, pro-day, or RAS value is retained for the 2027 class; absence here does not mean no testing has taken place.

Listed roster height and weight (CollegeFootballData); no verified athletic testing is retained. Bio captured August 29, 2026.

Historical comparisons

Historical profile comparisons are being rebuilt.

Sources and methodology

  • Retained bio and measurements: Draftanomics prospect ingest (CollegeFootballData rosters and recruiting), retained seed data/seed/prospects_upcoming_full.parquet.
  • Retained college production: CollegeFootballData season statistics via the retained player cross-reference; position-relevant categories only; all-zero category rows dropped.
  • Age: unavailable — no birth date or age is retained for the 2027 class.
  • Transfer history: not retained — the page shows the current school and, where the frozen id names a different school, the former school.
  • Public Draft Board: sealed snapshot as of August 31, 2026; per-source ranks are not published under the aggregate-only source policy.

Board methodologyDossier methodologyResearch status

Board position reflects aggregated public opinion; the scouting report is a separate editorial assessment.