Dametrious Crownover OT Texas A&M |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report
| Jersey: #78 SUB-POSITION: Right Tackle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Updated: 02/20/2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draft Year: 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FORTY time: 5.14 seconds (75%*) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Age: 24.11 DOB: 09/12/2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jersey: #78 | |
| SUB-POSITION: Right Tackle | |
| Last Updated: 02/20/2026 | |
| Draft Year: 2026 | |
| Forty time: 5.14 seconds (75%*) | |
| Age: 24.11 DOB: 09/12/2001 | |
| Overall Rating: | 82.9 / 100 | |
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| Average rating of opposition Defense player has faced | ||
| Defense Rating: |
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81% |
| Click the links below to view how player ranks vs other prospects. | ||
| Pass Blocking: |
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65% |
| Run Blocking: |
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79% |
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DRAFT PROJECTION:
5th
Overall Rank:
#145
Position rank:
#28 (OL)
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| College Games: 45 College Snaps: 1884 | ||
ESPN RATING: 80/100
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247 RATING: 88/100
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RIVALS RATING: 5.7 (93%)
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| Player Comparison* (Similarity level) | ||
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| Tyler Steen - Alabama |
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80% |
| Rasheed Walker - Penn State |
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80% |
| Isaiah Adams - Illinois |
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79% |
Drafted: ROUND: 6 - Pick Number: 196 (NE)
Draft Profile: Bio
Dametrious Crownover grew up in Grandview, Texas, a small town south of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where he was a two-sport standout in football and basketball at Grandview High School. As a sophomore, he helped lead Grandview to the Texas Class 3A Division I state championship, and by the time his prep career wrapped up, he had earned first-team all-district honors at both tight end and defensive end. The recruiting services saw him differently: ESPN tagged him as a 4-star prospect while 247 Sports (0.88 grade) and Rivals both had him as a 3-star. He committed to Texas A&M as a tight end, arriving in College Station in 2021 as a raw, long-limbed athlete with a sky-high ceiling and very little certainty about where he'd line up long-term.That question got answered during his redshirt year when the coaching staff moved Crownover to the offensive line, a transition that began to pay dividends quickly. He appeared in eight games as a redshirt freshman in 2022, including his first career start at right tackle against Sam Houston, and took home the Aggie Offensive Unselfish Leadership Award for his willingness to embrace the position switch. By 2023, he was seeing action in all 13 games and earned his first significant start at right tackle in the Texas Bowl, where the offense put up 372 passing yards and allowed just two sacks. He also logged reserve snaps at right tackle against Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Ole Miss, steadily building a foundation for a larger role.
The 2024 season is where Crownover locked down the starting right tackle spot for all 13 games and became a fixture on one of the SEC's best rushing attacks. Texas A&M ranked 26th nationally and second in the conference at 195.5 rushing yards per game, and Crownover was in the middle of all of it. He helped anchor a line that paved the way for 333 rushing yards against McNeese, 310 at Florida (the first back-to-back 300-yard rushing performances for the program since 2012), and 242 yards with five touchdowns in a statement win over No. 8 LSU. The Aggies recorded multiple rushing touchdowns in six consecutive games down the stretch. Crownover returned for a fifth year in 2025, starting every game at right tackle once again and logging 784 offensive snaps across the season. Over four years of action, he appeared in 45 games with nearly 1,900 blocking snaps at the position.
Scouting Report: Strengths
- Rare combination of height, length, and mass at 6-7 and 336 pounds makes him an imposing presence who can wall off the edge and smother speed rushers with his reach.
- Runs fast which is genuinely impressive athleticism for a man that big and confirms his movement skills translate beyond the practice field.
- Background as a tight end recruit shows up in his ability to move in space, climb to the second level, and locate linebackers on designed runs.
- Excels as a double-team partner on combination blocks; he feeds defensive tackles to the guard and covers up targets with ease, which was a hallmark of that dominant 2024 rushing attack.
- Plays with real effort and tenacity as a finisher; he runs his feet through contact and does not quit on reps, which coaches will love in the meeting room.
- Can reset his hands after losing initial positioning, using his length to reassert control of a pass rusher who gained a brief advantage in the rep.
- Kept his quarterback clean at an impressive rate in 2024, allowing zero sacks and just 19 total pressures across the full season as the full-time starter.
- Durable and available, logging virtually every blocking snap in three of his four seasons and never missing time due to injury across 45 career games.
Scouting Report: Weaknesses
- His pass protection got worse each year he started, not better, and the 2025 tape is a clear step backward from the solid work he put on film the year prior.
- Allowed 27 total pressures in 2025 including 23 hurries, a significant jump from the previous season that suggests pass rushers consistently found ways into his chest.
- Penalty issues are real: he racked up 11 flags in 2025 after just three the year before, a spike that signals technique breakdowns and a lack of discipline in his punch timing.
- Plays too tall and too wide with his hands, which exposes his chest plate and leads to a soft, unreliable anchor when bull rushers get underneath him.
- Lateral agility remains a limiting factor; he struggles to redirect and recover against speed-to-power conversions and inside counters that cross his face.
Scouting Report: Summary
Crownover is one of the more fascinating developmental tackles in this class because the physical tools are legitimately rare. You do not find many 6-7, 336-pound men with that foot speed and who have the athletic background of a converted tight end. When everything clicks, he looks like a starting right tackle in a gap-heavy run scheme, smothering defenders at the point of attack and using his length to erase speed off the edge. The 2024 tape, when he anchored one of the best rushing attacks in the SEC, is the version of Crownover that gets offensive line coaches excited.The problem is that the arrow on his pass protection is pointing in the wrong direction. His film got worse each season, and the 2025 tape is littered with reps where he's upright, late with his hands, and sliding too far laterally to handle inside counters. The penalty spike is another red flag. For a converted tight end entering his fifth year, you want to see the technique tightening up, not loosening. That regression raises legitimate questions about whether his body type and movement patterns will ever allow him to develop a consistent anchor and clean footwork in pass sets.
The most realistic path for Crownover at the next level is as a developmental swing tackle who earns his keep early on as a run-blocking specialist in heavy packages and on the goal line. A coaching staff that commits to overhauling his hand placement, pad level, and set-point awareness could unlock something special, because the raw materials are there. But banking on that kind of transformation with a player who regressed in year four as a starter is a gamble. His ultimate ceiling depends almost entirely on coaching and development, not on physical talent, which he has in abundance.
Dametrious Crownover percentiles vs other Offensive Tackles (NFL Combine historically - higher value represents better perfomance)
How other scouting services rate Dametrious Crownover (Overall Rank)
All Scouts AverageOverall Rank
95.9
All Scouts AveragePosition Rank
21.0
*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.