NFL Draft
3/10/25
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Caleb Rogers 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Texas Tech Red Raiders OG
Height: 6044 (verified)
Weight: 313 (verified)
Year: Redshirt Senior
Pro Comparison: TBD
Scouting Overview
Texas Tech Red Raiders offensive lineman Caleb Rogers is an athletic, physical blocker who offers effective gap-controlling blocks in the run game. A highly experienced starter, Rogers has played a lot of football and proven himself a durable, steady player.
He’s not perfect and offers some length limitations that should push him inside to guard in the NFL. However, Rogers wins on drive and combination blocks to create running lanes inside and shows stickiness in his blocks to sustain angles. As a pass protector, he has a good punch and will be better protected from long-armed rushers and speed-to-power conversions inside.
2025 NFL Combine Results
| Position | Name | School | 40-Yard Dash | 10-Yard Split | Broad Jump | Vertical Jump | 3-Cone Drill | 20-Yard Shuttle | Bench Press |
| OL | Caleb Rogers | Texas Tech | 5.1 | 1.78 | 111 | 34 | 7.43 | 4.49 |
Positives
- Shows very good physicality and play demeanor to win real estate in the trenches as a run blocker
- Offers effective short-area fluidity and acceleration to disengage from doubles or peel late to pick up second-level gap shooters
- Has extensive history at tackle and should have utility opportunities to fill multiple spots
Negatives
- Lacks the length and punch reach to play tackle with a high ceiling at the NFL level
- Can struggle with second-level climbs and reach blocks to win far-reaching landmarks due to some step inefficiencies
- Can be undisciplined throughout the rep to keep his leverage and avoid overextending or leaning
Background
Rogers is from Mansfield, TX, and played high school football for Lake Ridge HS. There, he was a multi-year starter at right tackle who was ranked as a 3-star recruit (247 Sports). Rogers collected interest from schools like Georgia Tech, Louisiana-Monroe, and others before landing with the Red Raiders.
Rogers signed with Texas Tech as a member of their 2020 recruiting class and played in nine games with three starts as a true freshman during the 2020 COVID-19 shortened season. Rogers retained his four years of eligibility as a result.
He assumed a starting role for his second freshman season as a full-time starter, playing at right tackle. He flipped to play on the left side as a left tackle in 2022 and started in all 13 games. Rogers returned to play right tackle in 2023 and was named Honorable Mention All-Big 12 for his play.
Rogers’ fifth year with Tech saw him max out with 55 consecutive starts for the program and 61 career games played. He collected starts at left guard and right tackle throughout the season and illustrated desirable positional flexibility.
Rogers accepted an invitation to the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl upon the completion of the 2024 season.
Tale Of The Tape
Rogers is an unsexy blocker, but someone who checks a lot of boxes to have an unglamorous role as a future NFL starter on the interior. He’s a highly experienced player with positional flexibility and a blend of aggressiveness, physicality, and athleticism that should offer a little something for everyone.
Rogers has logged more than 2,500 snaps at right tackle, nearly another 1,500 at left tackle, and more than 300 snaps at guard across his five seasons at Texas Tech. His experiences at tackle will make him available to serve as a utility player and emergency flex player on the edge for his future offensive line. His skill set feels more well aligned to stay on the inside, where the angles are tighter and the anchors are heavier.
In the run game, Rogers is an effective angular blocker. He creates wash on down blocks and shows stickiness with his hands to work his feet across the frame of a defender in order to capture a gap. When he’s charged with pulling in power schemes, he illustrates good hip flexibility to flip open and offers good vision to react to color and not play through a straw.
Rogers has good reactive quickness once engaged with a block to wash and create bigger lanes while steering blockers with their momentum—a desired trait to lean on in zone schemes. Despite his athletic profile, Rogers does not illustrate consistent range on the second level to climb against backers, but he appears to take false steps and poor angles out of the chute that reduce his fit and put him into a deficit in space.
This is an area for further development as required based on the core principles of his next scheme, but it will be more prominent playing inside and having more reps uncovered as a playside blocker.
There’s good leg drive and lower-body power on prolonged engagements, and Rogers illustrates a stiff punch that often lands on the chest plate of defenders to jolt and offset first-step explosiveness.
As a pass protector, Rogers has been tested throughout his career but showed great growth the last two years when allowed to settle at right tackle and/or play inside. His year at left tackle in 2022 saw him concede nearly 50 pressures, but he’s allowed less than half as many in each of the last two seasons.
He doesn’t offer the greatest arc for rushers along the outside due to sub-33-inch arms. Still, he’s got a dense anchor for when rushers try to attack him down the middle. Projecting him inside, where the explosive elements and space prior to contact are reduced, should play well into his punch power and core strength.
Rogers has been strung out throughout reps and had his pad level rise up — this invites rushers to snatch or push/pull him to yank his center of gravity onto his toes. He must be more vigilant here to trust his lower-body strength throughout the rep.
Rogers brings a good level of “nasty” and offers skill versatility, but he is something of a projection, thanks to his limited body of work on the interior.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Rogers projects as a developmental starter on the interior at the NFL level. Despite his playing experience, he can technically polish his game to become a stickier and more rangy blocker, but he offers the toughness, punch power, and anchor to start at the pro level.
He has the displacement skills and the athletic profile to be a scheme-diverse talent.
Grade: 73.50/100.00, Fourth Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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