NFL Draft
3/13/25
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Zeek Biggers 2025 NFL Draft: Scouting Report For Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets DT
Height: 6050 (verified)
Weight: 320lbs (verified)
Year: Senior
Pro Comparison: Daniel McCullers
Scouting Overview
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defensive tackle Zeek Biggers is a hulking frame in the middle who offers potential as a gap-control defender. He has elite length with a large wingspan and the natural density to play with a heavy anchor.
With his length, he does afford a higher-than-usual tackle radius that allows him to make wrap-up tackles a reality while playing off of contact. However, his pad consistency, flexibility, and lack of first-step explosiveness pose challenges that seem to cap his ceiling as a player and mitigate his talent. There’s potential here, but it must be drawn out. Even then, it’s at a withering position in today’s game.
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 |
| DT | Zeek Biggers | Georgia Tech | 5.14 | 1.74 | 111 | 34.5 |
Positives
- Has flashes of very good punch power and the ability to reset the line of scrimmage
- When tackling solo assignments, can be difficult to move off the point of attack, provided his pads are down
- Offers some special teams value with elite length — has four blocked kicks in his career at Georgia Tech
Negatives
- Offers minimal threat on passing downs to win with burst
- Does not showcase ideal cornering ability to flatten off the hip of blockers to advance to the football
- Struggles with consistency with utilizing and implementing his length — lets too many blockers into his chest
Background
Biggers is from Mount Ulla, NC, and played his high school football for West Rowan HC. There, he was a 3-star recruit (247 Sports) who collected offers from schools like Temple and East Carolina before he committed to Georgia Tech. He enrolled with the school as a member of their 2021 recruiting class.
As a true freshman in 2021, Biggers played in nine games. He was a more prominent part of the Yellow Jackets rotation in 2022 before assuming a starting role with the team for each of the last two seasons of eligibility; Biggers started 25 consecutive games to close his college career and was twice named Honorable Mention All-ACC.
Biggers accepted an invitation to the 2025 East-West Shrine Bowl.
Tale Of The Tape
Biggers is sure to catch your attention with his build. He’s got the right blend of density and length that offer the foundation of an NFL interior defender. His arm length is elite, as he’s pushing nearly 35-inches. That, plus a few standout athletic tests (a 34.5-inch vertical) that suggest lower-body explosiveness at the NFL Combine, paint a unique picture relative to his on-field work and should offer some extra incentive for a team to invest long-term.
One of Biggers' biggest challenges is implementing his length. Too often, he’ll let blockers into his chest and give up his leverage at the point of attack. When he can attack an individual blocker or set his hands early vs. double teams, he illustrates the upper-body strength to dislodge fits and put himself in a position to use his length through contact to disrupt ball carriers.
Pad-level consistencies further amplify his anchor in the middle and his ability to squat and hold the point of attack vs. doubles. This leaves him vulnerable to a potential nose tackle candidate and may push him to play in the B-gap more frequently. Georgia Tech used him less frequently in the A-gaps in 2024 than in either of his previous two seasons.
Biggers lacks any sort of consistent pass rush appeal and appears to be capped as an early down and short yardage candidate. His first-step explosiveness is lacking, and he’ll struggle to claim victories working hip to hip in the backfield. Biggers does not necessarily offer the kind of lateral mobility or flexibility to turn the corner either.
One underrated element of his profile may be his special teams outlook. He’s blocked four kicks throughout the last three seasons, which is aided by that vertical leap, 6-foot-5 frame, and 35-inch arms. That’s a whole lot of mass to kick over. Can he develop the other elements of his game enough to get on the field and make it count?
Ideal Scheme Fit, Role
Biggers has the potential to develop into a gap control talent with effective run-defending ability. He should be offered an opportunity to develop within a scheme that charges defenders with optimizing their length and punch power to stack up the point of attack and keep linebackers free.
This is a long-term developmental player.
Grade: 68.00/100.00, Seventh Round Value
Big Board Rank: TBD
Position Rank: TBD
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