Top 10 offensive tackles in the 2019 NFL Draft

#6. Greg Little, Ole Miss

This former five-star recruit who was part of that Allen, Texas team alongside Kyler Murray, which won a national title back in 2014. Little stepped in off the bat as a Freshman All-American selection for the Rebels. League coaches voted him second-team All-SEC as a sophomore before making first-team all-conference finally last season and he has only cemented his future in the pros with those 29 consecutive starts on the blindside.

Little is a behemoth at 6’6”, 325 pounds. He gets a good jump off the snap is not afraid to lock horns with some of those big SEC defensive linemen, getting a nice initial drive on them. Ole Miss ran this unique gap run play, where they had one side of the offensive pulling across and Little almost slipped his man to get onto a linebacker. Of course, they ran it the other way around as well with the left side pulling and threw RPOs off it. Little swallows linebacker on combo-schemes where he can climb with momentum already and beats them to the spot plenty of times. He shows the agility and body control to step around bodies on skip pulls and such as, where he plasters onto targets in space.

In pass pro Little displays nimble left tackle feet and has the big mitts to place on the opposing defender. He can get depth quickly and displays tremendous hip flexibility to flip as his man is trying to counter back inside, plus he brings his feet with him consistently to stay in front of that guy. Little stonewalls people coming his way on twists. I thought he really improved in his second season, surrendering only 14 total pressures on almost 500 pass-blocking snaps and cut that number down to ten on almost the same number of snaps last year. That is even more impressive considering some of the competition he faced off the edge in the SEC.

Little is more of a leaner in the run game and places his hands around the shoulders of his opponents a lot of times. His feet are too wide in protection his hands slide outside the frame of the rusher occasionally. Core strength is definitely a question mark and with how much space he gives up initially, those guys who can convert speed to power can give him a lot of trouble. Most annoying for me however is that he quits on some plays late when he thinks it’s already over anyway and doesn’t necessarily look for help if he is not tasked with somebody or even if the O-line slides one way and the edge defender stunts inside.

This kid just needs to play with a little more aggressiveness and finish blocks the right way. He is ultra-talented and if he played as hard as Dalton Risner, who I just had ahead of him, he might challenge for the top spot at the position. Motivation is my biggest question mark and probably what will determine his future in the NFL – he could look like a top ten pick a couple of years down the road or sit on the bench.