Justice Haynes RB Georgia Tech |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report

Scouting Report: Weaknesses

• Season-ending foot surgery after seven games, the file's controlling fact.
• Both the protection and receiving tape sits below an NFL standard.
• Georgia Tech makes a third program in four years.
• Career-high carry load is 121; the durability proof does not exist.

Scouting Report: Summary

For seven games he was the Big Ten's best back: 857 yards at over seven a carry, ten touchdowns, three games of 149 yards or more including 159 in the opener, and 433 breakaway yards built on plus timed speed and the one-cut decisiveness zone schemes order by name. Haynes had already proven himself in two power rooms, Alabama then Michigan, when foot surgery ended the season in late October.

The injury is the controlling fact, and the file around it has holes. His pass protection and receiving tape both sit below an NFL standard, with thirteen catches for fifty yards in the featured stretch, the career-high carry load is 121, leaving the durability question entirely unanswered, and the move to Georgia Tech makes a third program in four years, this time rehabbing into a new scheme.

The per-game production was day-two quality, and that version, healthy, would not last long on boards. Everything now routes through the medical and a Georgia Tech season that must prove the burst survived the surgery while adding the third-down skills the file lacks. He projects as a draftable boom-or-bust back whose realistic range runs from early day three all the way to undrafted, a spread decided almost entirely by the next twelve months of medical reports and tape.