Tyler
Steen.
Tyler
Steen.
Alabama· 6'6"· 321 lb
"Philadelphia did not draft a left tackle at 65 — it drafted a set of feet and waited two years for the right address, and the guard it found inside was worth every snap of the wait."Pre-draft read
A four-year SEC starter who plays with the loose, springy movement skill of a converted athlete rather than a born mauler. His calling card is the set: quick vertical departure, hands inside the frame, and enough burst to reach the arc against speed. He mirrors laterally and recovers with his feet instead of grabbing.
In the run game he is best working laterally — reach blocks, zone climbs, pulls where he arrives under control. Power is the swing trait: he can stall on down blocks and gets walked back by leverage rushers when his pads rise. The signature is versatility with movement, an offensive lineman whose fastest path to value is inside, where the space shrinks and his athleticism plays every snap.
Inside/wide zone rushing attack with a quick-game passing menu that lets an athletic interior lineman work laterally and climb rather than displace.
Year 1: swing interior backup and jumbo package tackle. Ceiling: multi-year starting guard in a zone-based front five.
A gap/duo run game that asks him to win down blocks and drive defensive tackles off the ball, where his pad level and anchor become the whole rep.
Everything about his tape is easier in a phone booth than on an island.
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Steen is a positional convert with an uncommon developmental arc: he arrived at Vanderbilt as a defensive lineman, flipped to the offensive line as a sophomore and never came off the field again. Four seasons of SEC tackle reps, three schools' worth of scheme change in one career, and a final-year transfer to Alabama produced a lineman whose tape reads athlete-first, technician-second.
The 2022 Alabama season was the audition that mattered. He won the left tackle job in the summer, started all 13 games and earned second-team All-SEC from the league coaches, protecting a first-round quarterback against the best edge rushers in the country. The flashes were real — reach blocks, clean sets, climbs to linebackers — and so were the flags: hand placement that drifted late in reps, and an anchor that gave ground the moment a rusher got under his chest.
Boards split on where those tools belonged. The tackle-only evaluators had him in the Day 3 range; the teams that saw a guard projection had him firmly on Day 2, and the Senior Bowl week only sharpened the inside case. Philadelphia took him 65th overall as a developmental piece behind an elite line, betting that the movement skill would translate faster in a phone booth than on an island.
- 01
Pass-set quickness
Vertical departure is clean and repeatable, and he covers the arc against speed rushers without over-setting or losing his inside hand.
- 02
Lateral mirror
Redirects with his feet rather than his hands, staying square through counters and recovering from an initial half-step loss.
- 03
Zone-blocking mobility
Reach blocks and second-level climbs are his most natural reps; he tracks moving linebackers in space and finishes on the run.
- 04
Stunt and game recognition
Passes off twists cleanly with his center and guard, showing communication reps that carry over from four seasons of SEC starting experience.
- 05
Positional flexibility
Started at right tackle, left tackle and worked inside during all-star week, giving a staff a swing option across four spots on day one.
- 01
Anchor against power
Bull rushers walk him back when his pads rise, and he does not consistently reset his base once the initial contact wins leverage.
- 02
Hand placement
Strikes land wide of the frame too often, letting rushers into his chest and giving up control of the rep before he can reset.
- 03
Play strength at the point
Struggles to displace down blocks in a gap scheme and can be washed out when asked to generate movement without momentum.
- 04
Technical consistency
Reps swing between clean and rushed within the same series; his footwork tightens up when he processes late against pressure.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- —s
- Vertical
- 29.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 109inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- 4.59sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Vanderbilt | 4 |
| 2019 | Vanderbilt | 12 |
| 2020 | Vanderbilt | 9 |
| 2021 | Vanderbilt | — |
| 2022 | Alabama | 13 |
| Career | — | 38 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; games and starts only. 2018 was spent on the defensive line (one tackle at Georgia) before he flipped to offense in 2019. 2019: started all 12 at right tackle. 2020: started all nine at left tackle. 2021 start total is not published by an official source, so it is left blank rather than estimated. 2022: started all 13 at left tackle for Alabama, second-team All-SEC (coaches). Career totals are withheld because the 2021 line is unverified.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A converted, versatile lineman who settles inside and becomes a dependable multi-year starter in a zone scheme — the exact arc Steen has followed.
The realistic ceiling if the technique fully catches up: a decade-long plus starter at guard who wins with placement and consistency rather than raw power.
The floor if the anchor never holds up: a useful swing interior backup who starts in spurts and lives on scheme familiarity.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Steen played 11 games with one start as a rookie in 2023, then appeared in all 17 games with two starts in 2024 while winning a Super Bowl LIX ring as the Eagles swing interior backup. He won the starting right guard job in 2025 and started all 17 regular-season games plus the playoff game, and Philadelphia named him the returning starter at right guard for 2026.
Philadelphia handled him exactly as the pick implied. His rookie year was a redshirt in practice: 11 games, one start at right guard, mostly jumbo packages and spot duty behind one of the league's best offensive lines. In 2024 he came into camp with a real chance at the starting right guard job, lost it to Mekhi Becton, and spent the season as the swing interior backup — 17 games, two starts, plus four playoff appearances on the way to a Super Bowl LIX ring. He has said since that he handled losing the job poorly, and that the reset was the turning point.
The third year was the payoff. Steen won right guard outright in 2025 and started all 17 regular-season games plus the playoff loss, grading out as one of the more productive guards in the league and drawing public praise from Lane Johnson for a transformation the veteran called night and day. Philadelphia named him the returning starter at right guard for 2026, with a contract year ahead. In hindsight the evaluation was right about the player and wrong about the position: the tackle projection that split boards was never the point. Moved inside, the movement skill that looked like a bet became the foundation of a three-year starter, and pick 65 looks like a bargain.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; games and starts only. 2018 was spent on the defensive line (one tackle at Georgia) before he flipped to offense in 2019. 2019: started all 12 at right tackle. 2020: started all nine at left tackle. 2021 start total is not published by an official source, so it is left blank rather than estimated. 2022: started all 13 at left tackle for Alabama, second-team All-SEC (coaches). Career totals are withheld because the 2021 line is unverified.