JT Tuimoloau – Edge – 22 years old – Senior – Ohio State
Size: 193 cm
Weight: 120 kg
Stats 2024: 61 tackles including 22 for loss and 12.5 Sacks, 2 fumble forced, 3 defended passes
Estimated position: 2e round
Comparison: Tuli Tuipulotu
JT Tuimoloau is not the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, the most technical, the best leader or even probably a future star. But JT Tuimoloau looks like a future lieutenant, a future veteran of 10 years of age in the largest league in the world.
The university career of Defensive End is a real scenario of Shōnen. Tuimoloau arrives in Ohio State with a 5 -star label out of high school. From his year rookie he shows serious athletic flashes on the few times that he sees the field. As a sophomore he explodes, with a match against Penn State entered the legend. Then his 2023 season is a monumental flop. The soufflé falls.
2024 is therefore the last narrative arch, that of redemption and mutation. JT Tuimoloau stopped taking himself for someone he is not. He is not the main character of his own story. He becomes a safe player. In the shadows he progresses in all sectors and he has his best statistical season while no one is talking about him. He checks all the boxes of the model teammate, of the soldier for his team.
Strengths of JT Tuimoloau
- Power
- Defense against the race
- Heavy hands
Jt tuimoloau is one of only a handful of edge players that meet virtually all of gutey's thresholds.
He Had 12.5 Sacks and 22 Tackles for loss in 2024.
How wow you feel if the #Packers Drafted Him on Day 2 of the Draft? pic.twitter.com/r7rt8blvio
– Eli Berkovits (@bookofeli_nfl) March 30, 2025
The game of JT Tuimoloau is above all based on power. The latter comes from all her body but we feel that technical work on the lower body is quite well polite after 4 seasons at university. Thus, the defender still keeps his thighs monstrous active with good supports. He makes all his vis-à-vis all his vis-à-vis protective pockets and sometimes pancake The OLs. It couple at this power a beautiful natural length at the arms and a rather low center of gravity for an adequate lever effect.
This power also serves him against the race. He almost became a specialist. On 284 games in defense against the race, he made 31 tackles to miss only 2. He totaled 22 defensive stops. Its technical base in the lower body is good. He manages to contain the races inside and disengage from blocks with enough ease.
Attention ! Violent hands. JT Tuimoloau has hands weighing on his opponents. It breathes a superfluous severity that the attackers would go well. His few arm techniques that he masters are movements to break the opposing guards (CHOP, STAB). To tell the truth, it does not break, it destroys.
Weak points
- Agility
- Plan of Rush pass
- Mono-purpose
If JT Tuimoloau is a powerful player he has almost no register in finesse. Its agility in the field and rather mediocre. He is not able to turn his hips to threaten the exterior of line regularly. It must also be said that its speed and first step are barely above average.
Technically, there is no depth in his hunter hat quarterback. Its limitations prevent it from adapting effectively to adversaries that effectively absorb its power. Passed his natural force, we do not find any ideas in his game. Tuimoloau seems to play without thinking, for the better and for the worse.
All of this makes Ohio State's ex-fansting year dependent on a 4-3 game system and especially to a probable limit on its number of NFL games. The 1e and 2ND Downs will be his playground, the 3rde will be synonymous with prison box, unless it continues this superb development started in 2024.
Because a year ago, we could have said that JT Tuimoloau is/was (?) A player who chose his matches. Fortunately he has always shone in the big meetings in College Football. But no one wants a player on alternating current in NFL.
Possible destinations
Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals, Indianapolis Colts
JT Tuimoloau must be an additional player. The team that will repent must have a superb in its ranks rusher pass Either deductible or more limited against the race and which needs imminent support.
Teams in this physiognomy from half of 2ND tour must have done their duty on the defensive End of Ohio State. Even more if the latter play in 4-3 base or with hybrid fronts.
The best destination looks like Detroit. Lions store the return of their superstar Aidan Hutchinson (de). He now needs a faithful lieutenant on the other side of the line, a boy capable of offering space to his captain and not to complain about dark work. In addition, Dan Campbell (HC) is the ultimate motivator, enough to unlock JT Tuimoloau every weekend with certainty.
