Expert Analysis
4/26/24
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Jackson Powers-Johnson 2024 NFL Draft: Combine Results, Scouting Report For Las Vegas Raiders OL
The 2024 NFL Draft is getting close, making it an excellent time to highlight some of the class' best players with scouting reports. Each report will include strengths, weaknesses and background information.
Here's our report on Jackson Powers-Johnson.
Jackson Powers-Johnson's 2024 NFL Combine Results
- Height: 6'3"
- Weight: 328 pounds
- 40-yard dash: DNP
- 10-yard split: DNP
- Vertical jump: 32"
- Broad jump: 8'8"
Jackson Powers-Johnson 2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report
Strengths
- Compact frame with natural strength. He has active and efficient hand usage, maintaining balance with a firm base.
- Stayed square in pass protection with power in lower body to anchor and has the hand strength to control Defensive tackles.
- Consistently showed strong hands in pass protection. There were snaps in which he locked out defensive tackles with crisp arm extension.
- Overall aggressive with his hands in pass protection. At times, he was violent with his hand usage to move interior linemen.
- Showed calculated ability and technique to re-set his hands in pass protection to maintain control of the rusher.
- Played with high-level competitiveness and aggression. He hunted up pass rushers and finished with a nasty edge.
- Snaps with excellent awareness and accelerated vision, recognizing and reacting to stunts and pressures.
- Played with good leverage in the run game, staying low off the ball and keeping his feet moving to generate movement.
- Featured on back blocks in gap scheme run game and showed strength and power to seal and control defensive tackles.
- Run game snaps he showed outstanding recognition, efficiency and movement executing combo blocks.
- Comfortable and efficient climbing to the second level in the run game. He stayed balanced with good body control.
- Showed plus mobility getting out in front as a lead blocker in the conventional screen game. He runs well for a center.
- Finished with an edge in the run game and played through the whistle. He played with an attitude and an outstanding playing personality.
Weaknesses
- Will Powers-Johnson's powerful hands and overall strength translate effectively at the next level?
- At times, he played too high and upright, exposing his chest. He lost power and leverage to move defensive linemen on contact.
- Run game snaps in which he had some balance and body control issues, especially climbing to the second level.
- Overall athleticism will be scrutinized. He showed functional athleticism but too many snaps it was an issue.
- At times, he gathered himself off the snap to generate force on combo blocks, but he can’t do that at the next level.
NFL Transition
Powers-Johnson's 2023 tape showed a strong center prospect. One trait consistently stood out: strong, powerful, heavy hands that moved interior defensive linemen. Powers-Johnson packed a short, compact yet powerful punch that changed the path of pass rushers while he maintained balance and a strong base.
Overall, Powers-Johnson played a strong man’s game in pass protection, showing lower-body strength and violent, effective hand usage to stop inside pass rushers and anchor with a firm base. In the run game, Powers-Johnson showed strength and power and was equally effective in zone and gap schemes. The trait that consistently stood out watching his run game tape was his competitive finishing mentality.
Powers-Johnson played with an attitude and swagger that are tone-setting for an offense. While he has some technical aspects of his game to clean up due to his lack of experience (only one year starting at Oregon), there is no question he has Day 1 starter written all over him.
His tape showed an outstanding combination of strength, power and functional movement with a high level of competitive toughness. While he played center in 2023, an NFL team could see him as a guard, depending on their system.
Other Notes
Powers-Johnson came to Oregon as a consensus 4-star recruit and top-five center nationally after winning three consecutive high school state championships in Utah. He became Oregon’s starting center in his final season of 2023 and earned unanimous All-American honors.
