Darrell Jackson Jr.: Elite Length, Rotational Potential

0:00It's April 6th. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is NFL News Today, your AI-powered football briefing. Daryl Jackson Jr. stands six foot five and a half inches tall, weighs 315 pounds, and wraps up his wretcher senior year at. Four to state as a defensive lineman with 11-inch hands and 34-3-quarter-inch arms. This dude started at Maryland with just 225 snaps. Bounce to Miami for 414 snaps where he notched 16. Players in 18 stops then hit the transfer portal as a top guy and landed at Florida state for his final three years. His career totals 1,691 snaps, 64 pressures, and 79 stops, peaking in 2024 with 30. Pressures in 23 stops, despite a 21.4% mistackle rate. By 2025, he cleaned it up to 14 pressures, 24 stops, and just a 7.7% mist rate on tackles. Players in scouts love his elite length.

1:00Think 7-foot-two wingspan and how he hoax up inside using violent hands, grip strength and power to, constrict lanes and anchor at the point of attack. That size overwhelms blockers and his hustle shows up everywhere on the field. On the flip side, he's not the twitchiest athlete for his frame, gets stiff in the hips, plays with a high pad level, and lacks a real pass rush plan, beyond bowling swim moves. And his hands aren't always quick enough to shed. Still, Jackson's an above-average runstuffer who occupies space like few others, projecting as a solid rotational piece with starter upside if he, an Inza, drops that pad level and adds spinness. Scouts pay him at a 6.11 grade.