Mario Landino DL Indiana |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report

Scouting Report: Weaknesses

• Plays at 275 pounds, light to anchor against power on early downs
• Needs more sand in the base to hold up against power
• Wins on quickness more than a developed hand-counter plan
• Gives ground when reduced inside and asked to two-gap
• Pressure total at UCLA dipped when guards got hands into his chest

Scouting Report: Summary

Landino was a disruptive interior presence on a College Football Playoff team, leaning on quickness and leverage to pile up seven sacks and thirty pressures from a lighter-than-ideal frame. He won the Illinois game with three sacks and six pressures, finishes tackles cleanly with only two misses, and plays the kind of penetrating style that creates negative plays. For a 275-pounder inside, the production is a genuine selling point and the reason his tape stands out late in the rankings.

The frame is the limiter. At 275 pounds he is light to anchor against power on early downs, the defends the run a step behind his pass rush, and he gives ground when reduced inside and asked to two-gap. He wins on quickness more than a developed counter plan, and his pressure dipped against UCLA when guards got hands into his chest. He is a penetrator whose run-down value depends on being deployed in a one-gap, attacking role.

Slot him as a sub-package interior rusher who can win on passing downs with quickness while he adds mass for early-down work. The production gives him a real floor as a designed penetrator, and the playoff experience and motor are in his favor. That earns a late-round grade as an attacking interior piece, a player who has a defined way to win even if the frame caps the every-down role.