Willie Lampkin NFL Draft 2025: Scouting Report for North Carolina IOL

HEIGHT: 5'10" 3/8

WEIGHT: 279

HAND: 10⅜"

ARM: 31½"

WINGSPAN: 78⅛"

40-YARD DASH: 5.21

3-CONE: NA

SHUTTLE: 4.7

VERTICAL: 23.5"

BROAD: 8'8"

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POSITIVES

— Outstanding natural leverage and contact balance with good play strength.

— Very good quickness to close space in a blink on climbs and pulls and when uncovered in pass protection.

— Refined all-around footwork and use of hands.

— Keeps elbows and hips connected with a tight, firm punch and excellent grip strength.

— Sticky run blocker who strains as hard as any blocker in the nation to finish blocks.

— Strong week of practice in Mobile at guard and center.

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NEGATIVES

— Uniquely undersized in terms of height and weight

— Will get stacked and pulled into overextension here and there if unable to establish first meaningful contact.

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NOTES

— Born Jan. 22, 2002

— 3-star recruit from the 2020 class, per 247Sports

— Won the Florida 2A heavyweight state championship in wrestling as a senior with a 47-0 record

— 61 career starts across the interior; 26 at left guard, 21 at right guard and 14 at center

— 2024 AP First-team All-ACC selection

— Accepted his invite to the 2025 Senior Bowl

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OVERALL

Willie Lampkin is a five-year starter with double-digit starts across each spot on the interior including 12 at right guard in 2024 inside UNC's 56-44 run-pass split, multiple run scheme. Lampkin is uniquely short and light with adequate arm length, very good quickness and good play strength.

Lampkin is a leverage monster in the run game with a refined skill set and a keen understanding of how to stick on blocks. He can hold the point in the post on double teams, strain, and wall-off rush lanes when isolated on drive blocks and regularly intersects targets on pulls and climbs. Once latched, Lampkin is a chore to shed due to his tremendous ability to fit, clench, and take away space for defenders to operate. His lack of girth and mass creates soft edges that defenders can get to and if he cannot establish first meaningful contact has gotten push-pulled into overextension but these instances are rare on film.

In pass protection Lampkin shows very good footwork and strike timing in his jump set to land his punch first and inside the frame of rushers before clenching and anchoring on command. He uncorks on adjacent rushers when uncovered and is alert to decipher line games and stunts.

Overall, Lampkin has an unprecedented combination of size limitations and great tape that creates a difficult projection for the NFL, but he more than held his own in the ACC and Mobile. Worst case Lampkin can fit into a versatile move blocker role in the mold of Ravens FB Pat Ricard but checks enough boxes apart from size to compete for a job at center as a rookie.

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GRADE: 6.0 (Developmental Prospect - 5th Round)

OVERALL RANK: 218

POSITION RANK: IOL23

PRO COMPARISON: Shorter Aaron Brewer

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Written by B/R NFL Scout Brandon Thorn

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Prospect workout numbers, measurables (40-yard dash, hand size, etc.) and 2024 statistics will be added at a later date.