Beaux
Limmer.
Beaux
Limmer.
Arkansas· 6'5"· 302 lb· 5.22s 40
"The 217th pick was supposed to be a bench body who could snap in an emergency; by Week 2 of his rookie year the emergency had arrived and Los Angeles never went back."Pre-draft read
A four-year SEC starter who spent most of his career at right guard before finishing it at center, Limmer plays a grip-and-torque style that begins in the weight room. The 39 bench reps show up as jolt on contact and as hands that lock and stay locked once they land.
In the run game he is best on angles — reach blocks, down blocks and combinations climbing to the second level rather than one-on-one displacement of a nose. In protection he is compact and rarely late, but short arms and average lateral recovery surface against wide-shaded interior rushers. The signature is snap-to-hands timing plus the flexibility to be the emergency answer at three interior spots.
Wide-zone and outside-zone offenses built on movement and combination blocks — the Sean McVay/Shanahan-tree scheme that drafted him. He needs a run game that asks him to reach, climb and cut off rather than displace a nose tackle on down blocks.
Year 1: swing interior backup and jumbo body who can start at center or either guard if the line breaks. Ceiling: a multi-year zone-scheme starting center whose grip strength and protection calls hold up for 17 games.
A gap/duo power front like Baltimore or Philadelphia, where the center is asked to displace a 340-pound nose on down blocks and anchor solo against A-gap bull rushers — the exact rep his length and anchor lose.
The 2024 tape proved the scheme thesis: in a zone offense his hand strength and timing covered for his length. Ask him to win with mass and the same reps flip.
Beaux Limmer Right Guard Highlights
The pre-draft guard reel: hands landing inside, combination blocks and the finish that made him a Day 3 name.
Film Room: Beaux Limmer Vs Alabama: All Pass Pro
Every pass-protection rep against Alabama — the anchor and length questions shown rather than asserted.
Rams Rookie Beaux Limmer Is Looking A Huge Steal | Film Review
Rookie-year center tape with the Rams, the season that justified the 217th pick.
Limmer is the SEC's version of a developmental starter: 48 games, 40 starts and experience at right guard, left guard and center, all of it against the best interior defensive linemen in college football. He is not a mover of men so much as a positional blocker with elite grip strength, and his best football came once Arkansas asked him to make the calls rather than simply execute them.
The 2023 tape is the case. He moved to center full time, played more snaps than any Arkansas player, allowed three sacks on 402 pass plays and graded as the program's best offensive lineman. The flags were physical rather than mental: 31 7/8-inch arms, a body that plays taller than it should on the snap-and-set, and reps against SEC nose tackles where his anchor drifted backward before the punch reset it. Nothing on the tape said starter, but nothing on it said he could not survive.
Boards had him as a fifth-to-sixth-round interior lineman with center-guard flexibility — Lance Zierlein's fifth-round projection was the high end of the public consensus, and the combine bench record made him a memorable name without moving him up. Los Angeles took him 217th with the exact logic teams use at that pick: buy the versatility, coach the anchor, and if it works you have found a starter for nothing.
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Grip and finish strength
Led the entire 2024 combine with 39 bench reps and it is functional, not cosmetic: once his hands land inside, defenders do not disengage.
- 02
Center-guard versatility
Started at right guard, left guard and center in the SEC, which turned him into a three-position answer instead of a one-spot backup.
- 03
Snap-to-set timing
Rarely late off the ball at center, getting his hands and his eyes to work in the same beat rather than trading one for the other.
- 04
Production against the best
Allowed only three sacks on 402 pass-blocking snaps in 2023 while facing SEC interior rushers every week.
- 05
Movement skill for the position
A 5.22 forty, 36.5-inch vertical and 7.47 three-cone at 302 pounds let him reach, climb and cut off blocks in a zone scheme.
- 01
Length
31 7/8-inch arms mean he has to be early to win, and rushers who get into his frame first can lock him out before he ever engages.
- 02
Anchor versus true power
Bull rush from a heavy nose can push him into the pocket before his strength catches up and resets the block.
- 03
Lateral recovery
Once beaten across his face he struggles to redirect, which turns small technique losses into interior pressure quickly.
- 04
Plays tall out of the snap
Pad level rises at center more than at guard, giving defenders leverage on his chest on early downs.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.22sp50
- Vertical
- 36.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 110inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.47sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.57sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Arkansas | 4 |
| 2020 | Arkansas | 6 |
| 2021 | Arkansas | 13 |
| 2022 | Arkansas | 13 |
| 2023 | Arkansas | 12 |
| Career | — | 48 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics, so this table tracks appearances and starts only. Season games sum exactly to the 48-game career total and season starts to 40 (footballdb season-by-season log); Arkansas' own release cites 41 career starts, and the smaller verified figure is used here rather than the school's. Nothing is zero-filled beyond the verified 2019 zero-start season.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
The likeliest version and a near-identical Arkansas profile: a day-three interior lineman who spot-starts at center and guard, sticks on rosters for years and is always the first man in when someone goes down.
The ceiling: a mid-round center whose snap-to-hands timing and toughness turn into a decade of starting snaps and a real second contract.
The floor: a late-round center who never locks down a game-day role and lives on one-year deals and practice-squad elevations.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
The Rams did not plan on him. Injuries to Jonah Jackson and Steve Avila pushed Limmer into the starting lineup from Week 2 of his rookie year, and he never really gave it back: 14 starts, 1,040 snaps, two sacks allowed and the best blocking-efficiency mark of any Rams starter, all from a sixth-round rookie learning to make protection calls on the fly. He was the tenth-most-used center among the qualified group that allowed two sacks or fewer that season. On draft weekend nobody expected the 217th pick to be starting in September; by February he was Los Angeles' feel-good roster story.
The follow-up was harder. With Coleman Shelton back as the starting center in 2025, Limmer slid to interior depth and played five games with no starts — a Week 1 spike in run-block win rate was the highlight of a season spent as the sixth lineman. He entered 2026 still on his rookie deal at a $1.1 million cap number, still on the roster, and back in a genuine camp competition. That is the honest verdict on the pick: not a franchise center, but a sixth-rounder who has already delivered a full season of competent starting play and remains cheap insurance. For pick 217, that is a clear win regardless of how the competition ends.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics, so this table tracks appearances and starts only. Season games sum exactly to the 48-game career total and season starts to 40 (footballdb season-by-season log); Arkansas' own release cites 41 career starts, and the smaller verified figure is used here rather than the school's. Nothing is zero-filled beyond the verified 2019 zero-start season.