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NFL Draft Offensive Tackle Rankings

How the draft market prices offensive tackles, what evaluators weight, and every class we cover ranked within the position.

Compiled by the NFL Mock Draft Simulator research desk

How the market prices the position

Offensive tackle is priced as a premium position because the supply of players with the length and foot speed to play outside is genuinely limited, and because the cost of not having one is measured in quarterback health. Tackles routinely go ahead of their board grade. A tackle who can play left side is worth more than the same player projected to the right.

What evaluators actually weight

Length and foot quickness in pass protection set the floor. Evaluators look at how a tackle handles speed-to-power, whether he can recover once beaten inside, and how he plays when his hands miss. Anchor strength against bull rush separates starters from swing tackles.

The recurring failure mode

The most common miss is the college left tackle whose arm length or foot speed projects inside. That is not a failure, plenty of them become good guards, but a team that drafted a tackle and got a guard paid a tackle price.

How the offensive tackle groups compare

• 2027: 39 ranked so far, 2 inside the top 32 of the board and 7 inside the top 100. 2 are currently projected into the first round, though the class has not been drafted. Jordan Seaton leads the group at No. 10 overall.
• 2026: 39 ranked, 6 inside the top 32 of the board and 9 inside the top 100. 19 were drafted, 7 in the first round. Francis Mauigoa led the group at No. 10 overall.

Offensive Tackles by draft class

Each class's rankings are a separate page, frozen once that draft is complete.

How to read these rankings

Three numbers appear on the class pages and they answer different questions. Board rank is the prospect's slot on the consensus big board, across every position: it is the closest thing to an objective statement of how good the industry thinks he is. Positional rank is his place within this group alone, written OT1, OT2 and so on, which is what matters to a team that has already decided it is drafting a offensive tackle. Projected range is where published mock drafts actually have him going, and it is the only one of the three that prices in positional value.

The gap between the first and the third is the whole subject of this page, and for offensive tackles it runs in a consistent direction. A offensive tackle ranked 40th on the board who is projected to go in the twenties is not being overrated by us: he is being priced up by a market that pays for this position, and that premium is the single most reliable thing about how offensive tackles are drafted. The gap is not a mistake by either party, and reading the two numbers together tells you more than either does alone.

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