Kenneth Grant – 21 years old – Defensive Tackle – Michigan – Junior
Size: 1m95
Weight: 150 kilos
Stats 2024: 12 games, 32 tackles including 7 for losses, 5 forbidden passes
Estimated position in the draft: 13-31
NFL comparison: Dexter Lawrence (Ny Giants)
If Mason Graham is most rated, his partner in the middle of the defensive line of Michigan also offers an attractive profile. Very imposing, Kenneth Grant has been like a Defensive Tackle NFL for two seasons.
Kenneth Grant's strengths
- Defense of the race
- King of one against a
- Effective whatever the scheme of the offensive line
- Technical
Kenneth Grant is a palisade: the runners trying to go through the axis come up against a wall! Even when sometimes an offensive line player manages to deviate from the race trajectory, Kenneth Grant reaches by lengthening his long arms to slow down the bearer of the ball.
Its suddenness from the commitment also allows him to stop the runners even before they cross the line of scribmage (loss tackle).
It is prodigious that a man weighing 150 kilos can move in this way! Consequently, a single offensive line man cannot contain it. Kenneth Grant is too powerful and/or too mobile for one IOL (Interior Offensive LINE).
Faced with an offensive line playing in Power Scheme (man to man), he shows himself too powerful anyway. Its mobility allows it to disturb the simultaneous movement of the offensive linemen evolving into a zone diagram. He is even capable of chasing one runner on 25 yards!
Against a scheme or the other, if marked by a single opponent, Kenneth Grant very often wins his duel. And, the two -he -he cares benefit to his teammates: there is an insoluble problem!
Especially that it is not content to be physically superior, Kenneth Grant uses a variety of moves Already well developed. If he does not always reach the opposing attacker, Kenneth Grant constantly disturbs the opposing intentions.
Kenneth Grant's weaknesses
- Must lower its center of gravity
- Not the most exciting profile
- Interior VS Outdoor
Duels between line men are struggles. Besides, many of them, like Tyler Linderbaum (Baltimore) or Mason Graham (Michigan), were formidable in the high school competitions Wrestling (Struggle). To unbalance and therefore take over his opponent in this sport, the combatants must stand low on their supports.
Kenneth Grant tends not to look enough during hand -to -hand clashes. If in university, three-four opponents in a season could stand up to him, in the NFL he will face the experienced players at these games at each game.
His measurements are almost identical to those of Dexter Lawrence (Ny Giants): same size, four kilos less. The New York player put almost three NFL seasons to become a very good player against the pass. Like him, Kenneth Grant will first be an asset against the race. In fact, several franchises will first look into Dl In the more penetrating game, like Mason Graham (Michigan), Walter Nolen (Ole Miss) and Derrick Harmon (Oregon).
Of the last four drafts, 32 defensive line players have been recruited in the 1st round: 24 EDGE for 8 interior players. Normal or unfair, the fact is that the NFL staff favor outdoor players and this can “slide” a defensive Tackle during the draft.
Possible destinations
Miami Dolphins, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Loaders, Houston Texans, Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs
Dolphins lack an anchoring point on their defensive line, ditto in Seattle where the young Byron Murphy II would be better used from 3 to 4-technical. Who can name the Defensive Tackles of Houston Texans? A first curtain with Kenneth Grant surrounded by Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson would be dissuasive.
Inside the defensive line, the charges have only rotation players. Kenneth Grant offers superior talent, and the coach and the defensive coordinator have known him since their common years in Michigan.
Author of 75 tackles in two seasons, the imposing Bobby Brown III signed in Caroline: the Rams of Los Angeles could find his replacement with the choice 26. Because he deserves it, the Chiefs of Kansas City could give a gift to the Steve Spagnuolo coordinator: a duo Kenneth Grant/Chris Jones!
