Peter
Skoronski.
Peter
Skoronski.
Northwestern· 6'4"· 313 lb· 5.16s 40
"The most technically finished blocker in the class and the shortest-armed one: 480 pass-blocking snaps and six pressures allowed at left tackle, with every room in the league projecting him inside to guard."Pre-draft read
Three-year starting left tackle at Northwestern whose game is built on technique and balance rather than mass. He plays with immaculate footwork in his pass set, mirrors rushers with short, controlled steps, and rarely gives ground because his hands land inside on first contact. The pass-blocking record is absurd: six pressures allowed on 480 snaps as a junior.
In the run game he is a positional blocker who wins with angles and torque instead of displacement, and he is at his best climbing to linebackers on zone or pulling in space. Short arms were the entire pre-draft argument — the trait that most evaluators believed would push him inside to guard, where his balance and grip strength project as a plus starter immediately.
Zone-heavy run game married to a quick, rhythm passing attack that lets an interior technician work in phone-booth space.
Year 1: immediate starting left guard. Ceiling: perennial Pro Bowl interior anchor and line communicator.
A gap/duo front that wants his guard to drive a nose tackle five yards vertically on every early down.
Length dictated the position; technique dictated the floor.
Peter Skoronski Week 8 Highlights Tennessee Titans vs Atlanta Falcons NFL 2023 - 1st Round Pick (11)
Peter Skoronski Left Tackle/Guard Highlights
Tennessee Titans select Peter Skoronski with No. 11 pick | 2023 NFL Draft Highlights 🎥
Skoronski is the rare lineman who arrived with almost nothing to fix technically. He started 33 straight games at left tackle in the Big Ten from his true freshman year forward, never missing a game, and he graduated as the most decorated offensive lineman in Northwestern history — a unanimous 2022 All-American and the first Wildcat to win the Rimington-Pace Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year award.
The production held up under every filter. His 93.0 PFF pass-blocking grade in 2022 was the best single-season mark charted in years, built on six pressures allowed across 480 pass-blocking snaps, and he backed it up athletically at the combine with a top-five bench press and top-two finishes among linemen in the vertical and broad jumps. The one flag was structural: sub-33-inch arms, short enough that most rooms projected a move to guard rather than trusting him to hold up against NFL length on an island.
That debate defined his board placement. Evaluators who valued readiness had him as the top lineman in the class; those who paid for tackle length preferred Paris Johnson Jr. and Darnell Wright. Tennessee, rebuilding a broken front, took the safest player available and said openly they would find the right spot for him.
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Pass-set technique
Short, precise steps and inside hand placement give him one of the cleanest sets in the class; he almost never gets his frame turned.
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Historic production
Allowed six pressures on 480 pass-blocking snaps in 2022 and posted a 93.0 PFF pass-blocking grade, the highest charted mark in years.
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Balance and recovery
Plays through contact with a rooted lower half and regains position quickly when a rusher gets an initial edge on him.
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Interior projection
Grip strength, torque and awareness translate immediately to guard, where his lack of length stops being a limiting factor.
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Availability and pedigree
33 games and 33 starts with no missed time, unanimous All-American, and a grandfather who captained Lombardi's Packers at left tackle.
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Arm length
Sub-33-inch arms are the reason he was not going to survive at tackle; long NFL rushers reach his chest before he reaches theirs.
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Displacement power
Wins with angles rather than moving bodies off the ball, so he is not the answer for a downhill gap scheme that wants vertical push.
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Anchor against interior bull
Can be walked back a step by heavy 3-techniques when he catches instead of striking first inside.
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Positional value
A top-15 pick who profiles as a guard carries a cost-of-capital problem no matter how good the player turns out to be.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.16sp50
- Vertical
- 34.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 115inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.80sp50
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Northwestern | 9 |
| 2021 | Northwestern | 12 |
| 2022 | Northwestern | 12 |
| Career | — | 33 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; only verified games and starts are listed. Season totals sum exactly to the 33-game, 33-start career line — every appearance was a start at left tackle. Unanimous first-team All-American in 2022.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Steady, high-floor starting guard who anchors a line without ever being a liability.
College tackle who became a decade-long All-Pro guard on technique and balance.
Short-armed college tackle whose position never settled and whose value never matched the pick.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Peter Skoronski played his rookie season for the Tennessee Titans, starting 13 games at left guard. He showed promise as an interior offensive lineman.
The Titans moved him inside to left guard immediately, and he has never played anywhere else. He started 14 games as a rookie, missing time with an appendectomy, and looked like exactly what the scouting reports promised — clean technique, no panic, occasional trouble against interior power. Year 2 was 17 starts and steady improvement behind a rotating cast at quarterback. Then 2025 was the leap: 17 more starts at left guard without missing a single offensive snap, two sacks and one quarterback hit allowed all season, and PFF grades that put him second among NFL guards in pass protection and sixth overall. On a one-win team he was arguably the best player on the roster. Tennessee exercised his fifth-year option in April 2026, guaranteeing $19.07 million for 2027 while pursuing a long-term deal.
In hindsight the short arms were real and irrelevant. He was never going to be a left tackle, and nobody drafting him at eleven believed otherwise — the pick was for a decade-long interior starter, and that is precisely what Tennessee got. The only quibble is positional value: paying a top-eleven pick for a guard is a premium, and Skoronski has had to become an All-Pro-caliber player for the math to work. He is getting there.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; only verified games and starts are listed. Season totals sum exactly to the 33-game, 33-start career line — every appearance was a start at left tackle. Unanimous first-team All-American in 2022.