Anton
Harrison.
Anton
Harrison.
Oklahoma· 6'4"· 315 lb· 4.98s 40
"Harrison was the tackle you drafted for the pass set, not the punch: a 21-year-old blindside protector whose feet were already NFL-ready while his anchor was still a projection."Pre-draft read
Three-year Sooner who lived at left tackle in a spread, tempo-heavy Oklahoma offense, Harrison is a pass protector first. He plays with a clean, unhurried kick-slide, gets depth without opening his hips early, and mirrors speed rushers to the apex before resetting his base. Hands are timed rather than thrown: he catches, locks the outside shoulder, and steers the rush past the pocket.
In the run game he is a positional blocker, best on outside zone reaches and climbs to the second level where his range shows up. He is a finesse mover more than a mauler, and the power element lags the movement skill. The signature is stress-free feet on an island — the kind of tackle who erases the edge without help and rarely needs a chip.
Outside zone and wide-zone passing games that ask tackles to reach, climb and protect on an island rather than displace at the point of attack.
Year 1: immediate starting tackle on either edge in a zone-based offense, protected from steady one-on-one duty against elite power rushers. Ceiling: a top-15 pass-protecting left tackle if the anchor catches up to the feet.
A gap/power run scheme built on down blocks, duo and short-yardage displacement, where his lack of mass and grip strength would show up on every early down.
Jacksonville used him on the right side for three seasons before moving him back to left tackle in 2026 — the fit was always about zone movement, not the side of the formation.
Anton Harrison Left Tackle Highlights
Oklahoma left tackle reel showing the kick-slide, mirror ability and reach blocks on outside zone.
Oklahoma OT Anton Harrison Highlights | 2023 NFL Draft Breakdown
Pre-draft breakdown pairing highlights with the pass-protection-first evaluation.
Anton Harrison Film Breakdown
All-22 style breakdown of hand timing, anchor limitations and second-level work.
Harrison is a three-year starter-caliber tackle who arrived at Oklahoma as a 334-pound freshman and left as a 315-pound first-team All-Big 12 blindside protector, playing 34 games with 24 starts before declaring as a junior. The body transformation is the identity: he traded mass for movement and became one of the most fluid pass-setters in the class.
On tape the pass protection carried the evaluation. He handled Big 12 speed with quiet feet and rarely lost the corner, and the Combine backed the projection with a 4.98 forty at 6-4, 315. The flags were about power, not technique. He got walked back by heavy bull rushers, the anchor was more a resistance than a wall, and in the run game he sustained more often than he displaced. Length and play strength were the two boxes teams wanted checked before betting big.
The board had him in the back half of a strong tackle class, behind Paris Johnson Jr., Peter Skoronski, Broderick Jones and Darnell Wright, with a Round 1 floor built on age, athletic profile and starting experience on the blind side. Jacksonville traded down twice and still landed him at 27 — a value-conscious swing on protecting Trevor Lawrence with a 21-year-old tackle whose worst-case outcome was a long-term starter on the right side.
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Pass-set fluidity
Kick-slide is smooth and repeatable, with real depth against wide alignments and no wasted motion in the first three steps.
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Mirror ability
Redirects on inside counters without crossing his feet, which lets him stay square against speed-to-power conversions.
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Hand timing
Catches rather than lunges, placing hands inside on contact and resetting cleanly when the first punch misses.
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Movement skill in space
Genuinely comfortable on reach blocks and second-level climbs, a natural fit for outside zone concepts.
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Youth and runway
Declared at 21 after remaking his body from 334 pounds, with obvious room to add functional strength on an NFL program.
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Anchor versus power
Long-armed bull rushers walk him into the pocket, and his weight distribution drifts forward when he absorbs contact late.
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Run-game displacement
He seals and positions more than he moves bodies, limiting his value in gap and duo-heavy ground plans.
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Play strength at the point
Grip strength fades in extended reps, allowing defenders to disengage and work back to the ball.
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Length limitations
Shorter arms for the position force him to let rushers into his frame before he can independently strike.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.98sp50
- Vertical
- 28.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 105inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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- Bench
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Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Harrison played 34 games with 24 starts across three seasons at Oklahoma (2020-2022), earning first-team All-Big 12 honors in 2022 as the Sooners' left tackle.
A first-round tackle who becomes a durable, above-average starter with real pass-protection value and persistent power concerns.
The optimistic outcome: a decade of steady blind-side starts built on footwork and availability rather than raw power.
The downside: a fluid but light tackle who gets bounced inside or replaced when the anchor never catches up.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Harrison started 48 games in his first three Jaguars seasons, all at right tackle, posted a top-third pass-blocking grade in 2025, had his fifth-year option exercised for 2027 and moved back to left tackle in 2026.
Jacksonville put him on the field immediately, but not where he played in college: Harrison started all 17 games at right tackle as a rookie in 2023 and was the most productive member of the Jaguars' draft class, improving as the season went. He stayed at right tackle in 2024 across 16 games while the offense around him churned through injuries and coaching turnover, then produced his best season in 2025 — 15 games started, 971 snaps and a 75.6 PFF pass-blocking grade that ranked in the top third of NFL tackles. Jacksonville exercised his fully guaranteed fifth-year option for 2027 in the spring of 2026, and by that summer Liam Coen's staff had moved him back to left tackle, the spot he owned at Oklahoma.
In hindsight the pick did exactly what the tape suggested and nothing more dramatic. The concerns were real — he has never been a people-mover, and power rushers still test the anchor — but the pass protection and durability that made him a first-rounder have held up across 48 starts in three seasons. Jacksonville got a plug-and-play tackle at a premium position on a value-conscious pick, and the 2026 move back to the blind side is the organization betting the ceiling is still above the floor. Not a star yet, but a hit by any reasonable standard for pick 27.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Harrison played 34 games with 24 starts across three seasons at Oklahoma (2020-2022), earning first-team All-Big 12 honors in 2022 as the Sooners' left tackle.