Jalen Farmer OG Kentucky |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report
| Jersey: #52 SUB-POSITION: Right Guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Updated: 03/25/2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draft Year: 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FORTY time: 4.93 seconds (98%*) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age: 22.0 DOB: 07/27/2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jersey: #52 | |
| SUB-POSITION: Right Guard | |
| Last Updated: 03/25/2026 | |
| Draft Year: 2026 | |
| Forty time: 4.93 seconds (98%*) | |
| Age: 22.0 DOB: 07/27/2004 | |
| Overall Rating: | 84.6 / 100 | |
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| Average rating of opposition Defense player has faced | ||
| Defense Rating: |
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84% |
| Click the links below to view how player ranks vs other prospects. | ||
| Pass Blocking: |
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78% |
| Run Blocking: |
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74% |
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DRAFT PROJECTION:
4th
Overall Rank:
#101
Position rank:
#19 (OL)
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| College Games: 28 College Snaps: 1639 | ||
ESPN RATING: 79/100
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247 RATING: 87/100
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RIVALS RATING: 5.7 (93%)
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| Player Comparison* (Similarity level) | ||
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| Trevor Keegan - Michigan |
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79% |
| Tyler Cooper - Minnesota |
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78% |
| Luke Kandra - Cincinnati |
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78% |
Drafted: ROUND: 4 - Pick Number: 113 (IND)
Draft Profile: Bio
Two-way production at Eastside High School in Covington, Georgia, defined Jalen Farmer's prep career. He played left guard and defensive tackle as a senior, racking up 50 tackles, two sacks, and a touchdown while anchoring the offensive front under head coaches Troy Hoff and Jay Cawthon. That workload helped him earn the 2021 Georgia AAAAA Region 8 Lineman of the Year award, and 247Sports slotted him as a top-35 offensive lineman nationally in the composite rankings. He signed with Florida as a consensus three-star recruit across ESPN, 247, and Rivals.Farmer redshirted his true freshman year at Florida in 2022, appearing briefly against Eastern Washington and South Carolina. The following season he saw reserve duty in two more games, logging snaps against McNeese State and Vanderbilt. With limited opportunity to crack the Gators' lineup, he entered the transfer portal and landed at Kentucky for the 2024 season, returning to a program that had been among his finalists out of high school. The move paid off immediately. Farmer earned the starting right guard job from Week 1 against Southern Miss and never relinquished it, starting all 12 games that year. He allowed just one sack across the entire season, posted a 99 percent assignment grade, and tallied 95 blocks at the point of attack with 18 knockdown blocks.
His junior year in 2025 brought another step forward. Farmer logged a team-high 831 snaps, graded out at 84 percent by the coaching staff with only two missed assignments, and earned SEC Co-Offensive Lineman of the Week honors for his dominant showing against Auburn, where he played all 64 offensive snaps without allowing a single pressure or committing a penalty. He was named a game captain four times and accepted an invitation to the 2026 Panini Senior Bowl. After the season, with Kentucky parting ways with Mark Stoops and offensive line coach Eric Wolford departing for LSU, Farmer declared for the 2026 NFL Draft with a year of eligibility still remaining.
Scouting Report: Strengths
- Plays with a violent temperament and real finishing mentality; he wants to bury defenders and rarely lets up once he's latched onto a body.
- Impressive length at 34.5-inch arms allows him to control the point of attack and create a wide sphere of influence in both phases.
- Heavy, punishing hands that land with authority on contact; his initial punch staggers interior rushers and resets their momentum instantly.
- Anchors down quickly and decisively in pass protection, particularly effective on short sets where he clamps and sits into his base to hold pocket depth.
- Devastating puller who can kick out defensive ends or wrap to the second level; his combination of mass and effort makes him a wrecking ball on the move.
- Strong vertical displacement in the run game, especially on double-teams where his core strength and heavy legs consistently move defenders off the ball.
- Improved dramatically from his first to second year as a starter, cutting his penalties from six down to one and raising his overall blocking grades across the board.
- Reliable snap-to-snap competitor who logged over 800 snaps in consecutive seasons while maintaining a pressure efficiency rate above 97 percent both years.
Scouting Report: Weaknesses
- Lateral agility is a real limitation when asked to redirect against second-level defenders; his feet can get heavy and trail behind his upper body.
- Inconsistent timing off the snap hurts him on backside cut-offs and reaching wide-aligned defenders, leaving him late to landmarks.
- Susceptible to twists, stunts, and games up front; can be a beat slow to recognize and react when rushers exchange gaps post-snap.
- Overaggressiveness causes occasional issues on drive blocks where he lunges and fails to connect cleanly, whiffing on his target entirely.
- Has played exclusively right guard throughout his college career, with all 1,637 snaps at one spot, raising questions about positional versatility at the next level.
Scouting Report: Summary
Farmer is a physical tone-setter who brings the kind of demeanor and edge that offensive line coaches spend their careers looking for. This is a guard who plays with genuine nastiness, and the improvement he showed between his first and second years as a full-time starter at Kentucky tells me he's still climbing as a player. The jump in his pass protection was particularly encouraging; he got tighter with his hand timing, cleaned up penalties significantly, and became more disciplined about holding his ground without overextending. That kind of year-over-year growth matters.His best fit is in a downhill, gap-scheme offense that lets him fire off the ball and impose his will in the ground game. Power concepts, counter, and pull schemes are where he does his best work, and his length gives him a real advantage sustaining blocks through the whistle. He can function in outside zone, but his foot speed will be tested more there, and he is not the type of guard who is going to consistently reach and seal athletic three-techniques on the front side. Teams that lean on play-action and want to establish the run first will get the most out of what he does well.
The lack of positional versatility is a fair concern. Every snap of his college career came at right guard, and asking him to play center or slide to tackle feels like a stretch given his movement profile. That limits his value as a roster piece somewhat. Still, the physical tools are legit. The length, the hand power, the anchor, and the attitude all translate. He is the kind of guard who walks into a building and immediately raises the toughness of the entire offensive line room. If a team is comfortable drafting a one-position starter with a clear scheme fit, there is a dependable, physical guard here who can hold down a starting job for years.
Jalen Farmer percentiles vs other Offensive Guards (NFL Combine historically - higher value represents better perfomance)
How other scouting services rate Jalen Farmer (Overall Rank)
All Scouts AverageOverall Rank
100.3
All Scouts AveragePosition Rank
23.0
*Percentile Ranking in Player's Position Group (NFL Combine Historical Data): This percentile reflects how a player's specific statistics rank
in comparison to historical performances at the NFL Combine, specifically within their position group. A higher percentile indicates a better performance.
For instance, being in the 90th percentile for a particular stat means the player outperformed 90% of their peers in that category.
*Similarity Percentage: This percentage is calculated based on a comprehensive analysis of various factors, including height, weight, 40-yard dash times, on-field performance statistics, and overall player rating. The analysis is conducted against our database of draft prospects from 2021 to 2023. This similarity score helps in evaluating how closely a current prospect aligns with past prospects. It is important to note, however, that this score reflects similarities based on college production and attributes, and does not account for eventual success or performance in the NFL.
*Similarity Percentage: This percentage is calculated based on a comprehensive analysis of various factors, including height, weight, 40-yard dash times, on-field performance statistics, and overall player rating. The analysis is conducted against our database of draft prospects from 2021 to 2023. This similarity score helps in evaluating how closely a current prospect aligns with past prospects. It is important to note, however, that this score reflects similarities based on college production and attributes, and does not account for eventual success or performance in the NFL.