NFL Draft
3/31/25
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Logan Brown 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Kansas Jayhawks OT
Height: 6060 (verified)
Weight: 312lbs (verified)
Year: Sixth-Year Senior
Pro Comparison: Larry Borom
Scouting Overview
Kansas Jayhawks offensive tackle Logan Brown projects as a developmental starter at the NFL level. Brown is about as underdeveloped as you’ll ever find a sixth-year senior after he spent four seasons at Wisconsin with less than 350 snaps of experience before transferring to Kansas in 2023.
Brown has a steep curve in pass protection but has some electric moments in the run game that offer him a foundation on which his playing style can be built. Despite his high pad level, he showcases dynamic movement ability and offers the functional play strength to create displacement as a drive blocker.
He’s likely a ways away from seeing the field as a starter, but he’s got the ability to grow into one by the end of his rookie deal.
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 | Logan Brown | Kansas | 5.18 | 1.75 | 111 | 32 | 7.75 | 4.51 | 26 |
Positives
- Surreal body control in space as a blocker picking up second-level defenders or peeling back against gap shooters
- Showcases good grip strength and gravitational pull with his hands once fit on defenders to dictate the rep
- Startling burst out of the blocks and mobility to get down the line of scrimmage on cutoff blocks or to create front-side movement
Negatives
- Plays with too high of a pad level that robs him of force application through first contact too often
- Does not showcase the same foot speed and athleticism when pass protecting, will give up angles far too easily
- Can be guilty of oversetting against wide-angled rushers attacking him off the edge
Background
Brown is from Grand Rapids, MI, and played high school football for East Kentwood HS. There, Brown was a prized 5-star recruit (247 Sports) and an All-American Bowl selection while twice being named an All-State selection. Brown was also a track & field athlete who threw shot put in addition to his efforts on the gridiron.
His recruitment journey took him to Wisconsin as a member of the school’s 2019 recruiting class. He picked the Badgers over offers from schools like Alabama, Michigan, Penn State, Florida, North Carolina, and others.
Brown would go on to redshirt his true freshman season in 2019 before making his college debut in 2020 with 7 game appearances for Wisconsin. With the COVID-19 pandemic policy, Brown retained his four seasons of college eligibility after the 2020 campaign.
Brown would play in 19 more games with Wisconsin during the next two seasons. He did not log his first career start until 2022 when he started three games. He was dismissed from the team in October 2022.
Interim HC Jim Leonhard described it as an “internal incident” — although local reports did indicate it was a physical altercation with a teammate at practice. Brown entered into the transfer portal as a 4-star transfer (247 Sports) and landed with the Jayhawks.
He appeared in the first two games of the season in 2023 before missing the rest of the season due to injury. He would return and claim a full-time starting job in 2024. Brown was named Second Team All-Big 12 for his play in 2024 while starting 11 of the 12 games for the season.
Brown accepted an invitation to the 2025 Reese’s Senior Bowl after the year.
Tale Of The Tape
Logan Brown’s profile as a prospect makes a lot more sense once you dig into his background. It becomes apparent that he’s played less than 1,000 career snaps in six years of college ball. It took him until 2024 to earn a starting job between his time at Kansas and Wisconsin, but what he showcased as a one-year starter most definitely creates a challenging dynamic to his profile.
On the one hand, his movement skills are pretty impressive. His foot speed, acceleration, power off the line of scrimmage, and displacement ability in the run game are all plus qualities. He also has reactive quickness.
He isn’t just a bull in a china shop who coils and explodes out the gate but then can’t make any adjustments on the fly. Brown achieves this kind of displacement and fluidity in spite of himself at times.
One of the biggest warts in his game is how high his pads are. Brown plays upright without a great deal of bend in his hips or knees, which costs him even more force application to opponents. But with his plus movement skills and the power of his hands and punch, he can still be seen bowling over defenders or latching and running them off the point.
Given his warts, his consistency is still errant at times, and there are times when tight-punched defenders on the point can neutralize him and roll his pads back. So, even where he's at his best, there’s room for growth and improvement.
As a pass protector, he has tackle length and good mass to play on the edges, but he struggles greatly with the task of playing in space as a reactor and not an aggressor. His framing is a primary issue, as his feet look heavy and uncertain when he’s setting against both speed and power. This allows for far too many run-throughs of his strike zone and soft angles for opposing rushers.
Brown was blessed with a quick-twitch, athletic quarterback who mitigated the pressure situations in spite of his warts.
He sets himself up in protection for far too many isolated reps; he can be overeager to jump out vs. wide angles and put himself in a position to react to two-way go's. These reps then further amplify how he plays high and rigid through the hips at times, as he struggles to unlock his hips and flash his feet when he’s not playing forward. He should be considered a ground-up rework with his protection technique.
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Brown projects as a developmental starter, preferably for a wide zone system. The pillars of attacking every snap would diminish how raw he is as a pass protector and allow him to lean on his athletic strengths and dynamic ability coming out of the blocks.
He should be considered a depth player for at least his rookie season as he collects more seasoning and refinement.
Grade: 71.00/100.00, Fifth Round Value
Big Board Rank: 175
Position Rank: OT13
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