Jeremiah Wright OG Auburn |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report
| Jersey: #77 SUB-POSITION: Right Guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Updated: 03/23/2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draft Year: 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FORTY time: 5.40 seconds (32%*) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowl Invite: Senior Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jersey: #77 | |
| SUB-POSITION: Right Guard | |
| Last Updated: 03/23/2026 | |
| Draft Year: 2026 | |
| Forty time: 5.40 seconds (32%*) | |
| Bowl Invite: Senior Bowl | |
| Overall Rating: | 80.3 / 100 | |
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| Average rating of opposition Defense player has faced | ||
| Defense Rating: |
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82% |
| Click the links below to view how player ranks vs other prospects. | ||
| Pass Blocking: |
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73% |
| Run Blocking: |
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69% |
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DRAFT PROJECTION:
7th
Overall Rank:
#227
Position rank:
#43 (OL)
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| College Games: 42 College Snaps: 2040 | ||
ESPN RATING: 80/100
College Combine Results
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247 RATING: 86/100
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RIVALS RATING: 5.6 (92%)
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| Player Comparison* (Similarity level) | ||
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| Torricelli Simpkins III - South Carolina |
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84% |
| Dillan Gibbons - Florida State |
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84% |
| Luke Kandra - Cincinnati |
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79% |
Drafted: ROUND: 4 - Pick Number: 132 (NO)
Draft Profile: Bio
Baseball, not football, was the first love for Jeremiah Wright growing up in Snow Hill and Selma, Alabama. It took weeks of persistent recruiting from his middle school coach, Eugene Foster, to convince Wright's mother to even let the kid try the sport. His first day of practice, he played a few snaps at tight end before getting moved to tackle. He put somebody on the ground and never looked back. By the time he was starring at Selma High School for Coach Willie Gandy, Wright had turned into a highly sought-after offensive and defensive tackle recruit with offers from Georgia, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, and others. ESPN rated him a 4-star prospect and the No. 13 player nationally at his position, while 247Sports and Rivals had him as a consensus 3-star and a top-30 prospect in the state of Alabama.Wright signed with Auburn in the 2020 class under Gus Malzahn and immediately got thrown into the deep end of SEC football. The coaching staff converted him from offensive line to defensive tackle during his freshman preseason, and he saw his first action on the interior D-line at South Carolina that fall, picking up three tackles in the Citrus Bowl against Northwestern. Then the setback: a torn ACL wiped out his entire 2021 season. He bounced between the defensive and offensive lines again before finally settling on the O-line in 2022, working as a backup left guard with his first start coming at Ole Miss. Through it all, Wright earned his degree in liberal arts in August 2024, made the SEC Academic Honor Roll multiple times, and was named to the Wuerffel Trophy watch list for his community service.
The last two seasons is where Wright made his mark. He locked down the starting right guard spot in 2024 and never let go, stringing together 24 consecutive starts across the 2024 and 2025 campaigns. In his final season, he led Auburn's offensive line with 33 knockdown blocks, earned a grade of 90 percent or higher in five individual games, and served as a game captain against Missouri and Arkansas. By the time he declared for the 2026 NFL Draft following his sixth year on the Plains, Wright had appeared in 53 games and survived three different coaching staffs. He became a father in July 2025 with the birth of Jeremiah Wright Jr.
Scouting Report: Strengths
- Absolutely enormous frame at 348 pounds with thick lower half and long arms that allow him to swallow up defenders at the point of attack.
- Generates serious pop on first contact; when he gets his hands inside and fires his hips, bodies move backwards whether they want to or not.
- Physical, chippy temperament that never turns off. Loves finishing blocks into the turf and will stand over a defender after pancaking him.
- Effective on double-team feeds and down blocks where his raw mass and square power let him uproot nose tackles and create push at the line.
- Showed real improvement in his pass sets during 2024, keeping a patient base and working inside-out to wall off rushers and lengthen their path.
- Possesses the ankle flexibility to drop his hips and set a sudden anchor when bull rushers try to walk him into the quarterback's lap.
- Durable iron man who started every snap across two full seasons despite the physical toll of SEC trench warfare, including a comeback from a torn ACL.
- Mature, team-first character with a college degree, community service recognition, and the kind of locker room presence coaches trust to name as a game captain.
Scouting Report: Weaknesses
- Below-average foot quickness and lateral agility create real problems when quicker interior rushers change direction or use counter moves on him.
- Hands are too wide and inconsistent with placement, which undercuts his ability to sustain blocks even when he wins the initial punch.
- Effectiveness drops off a cliff when asked to block in space on pulls or screens; he cannot redirect and recover once he is committed to a path.
- Tends to lean forward and play with his head and shoulders over his toes, which costs him leverage and leads to overextension on angle blocks.
- Struggled to process stunts and delayed blitzes quickly, allowing interior defenders to cross his face before he could slide and pick up the exchange.
Scouting Report: Summary
Wright is a throwback guard in a league that is increasingly asking its interior linemen to do more in space. He brings a wrecking-ball style to the run game that you cannot teach, the kind of violent, ground-and-pound blocking that opens holes in gap and power schemes. When Auburn ran duo or pin-pull concepts, Wright was at his best, burying defenders on double teams and looking for work at the second level with bad intentions. The five games where he graded out above 90 percent were not accidents; that is the ceiling of a physical guard who can control his gap and deliver knockdown blocks consistently when everything clicks around him.The concerns are legitimate, though, and they are the kind that separate a Day 2 guard from a Day 3 flier. His pass protection took a step back in 2025 after a solid 2024 showing, with pressure totals nearly tripling and sack numbers climbing. Part of that is Auburn's overall offensive struggles, but the film also shows a guard who gets stuck in mud when rushers use speed to power or work counter moves. He plays with heavy feet and his hands land wide too often, which means his sustain breaks down even when he wins initially. In a zone-heavy scheme that asks guards to reach and climb, Wright will be exposed. In a phone booth, squared up against a three-technique on a gap play, he can absolutely win.
The right NFL home for Wright is a power-oriented offense that keeps him between the tackles and limits his exposure in space and against speed. His best football might still be ahead of him considering his winding path from defensive line convert to full-time starter. The torn ACL, the position switches, the coaching changes, all of it ate into developmental time that most Day 3 guards already have. Wright is not going to start right away, and he will need a patient staff willing to clean up his hand placement and teach him to play with better pad level. But the raw ingredients, the size, the power, the nasty disposition, those are real. If a team can harness that physicality and refine his technique, there is a capable NFL backup guard in there who could eventually push for starting snaps in the right system.
Jeremiah Wright percentiles vs other Offensive Guards (NFL Combine historically - higher value represents better perfomance)
How other scouting services rate Jeremiah Wright (Overall Rank)
All Scouts AverageOverall Rank
136.7
All Scouts AveragePosition Rank
34.0
*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.