Blake
Fisher.
Blake
Fisher.
Notre Dame· 6'6"· 310 lb· 5.20s 40
"The last true freshman to start a Notre Dame opener at left tackle came back from knee surgery as something else entirely: a right-side power blocker who wins with mass, not motion."Pre-draft read
Three-year right tackle who plays with a wide, heavy base and wins through mass rather than movement. Fisher sets with short, controlled kick slides, absorbs the initial charge on contact and uses long arms to reset his hands when the first punch misses. In the run game he is a displacement blocker on down and duo concepts, rolling his hips through contact and finishing late.
The secondary trait is anchor: bull rushers rarely walk him into the pocket, and he recovers from early leverage losses that would fold lighter tackles. Where he thins out is redirection, because speed-to-power counters and inside spins reach his edge before his feet do. The signature is phone-booth toughness; the athletic ceiling is functional rather than explosive.
Gap and duo power run game with play-action, where the right tackle is asked to displace bodies and set a firm edge rather than reach defenders on the move.
Year 1 swing tackle and heavy-package sixth lineman who can start a stretch of games at right tackle; ceiling is a durable multi-year starter on the right side in a run-first offense.
A wide-zone offense that asks tackles to reach and climb on the move, or a five-out passing system that isolates him on speed rushers in true drop-back sets.
Right-tackle-only projection. His value climbs in offenses that use six-lineman personnel, where his mass is a feature instead of a limitation.
Blake Fisher Right Tackle Highlights
Notre Dame right tackle reel showing the anchor, the base and the finish in the run game.
Film Room: Blake Fisher vs Louisville — All Pass Blocks
Every pass-blocking rep against Louisville, the cleanest look at his kick slide and hand timing.
Blake Fisher — O-Line Film Breakdown, 2024 Draft
Pre-draft breakdown of technique, pad level and the right-tackle-only projection.
Fisher is a power-scheme right tackle whose football identity was set early: the first true freshman in Notre Dame history to start a season opener at left tackle, then a meniscus tear in that same Florida State game, then a rebuild of his body and his technique on the right side. He came back as a mass-and-anchor blocker rather than a mover, and that is the player who declared.
The production is thin on volume but clean on tape. Two full seasons as the starting right tackle inside a Joe Moore Award semifinalist line gave him reps against Clemson, USC and Ohio State fronts, and he rarely got beaten by strength. The flags are footwork-based: he can be late off the ball, his hands come in stages instead of together, and elite bend on the arc forced him to lean and grab more than a first-round tackle should.
The board had him as a clean second-day starter with a right-tackle-only projection, usually in the 40-70 range, behind the teammate who went eighth overall. Houston taking him at 59 was a bet that the anchor and the size were the floor, and that an NFL strength program plus a fixed side of the line would clean up the rest.
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Anchor strength
Sits into bull rushes with a wide base and heavy hips, and power rushers rarely convert speed to displacement against him.
- 02
Length usage
Uses long arms to control the edge of the rusher, and he can reset a hand placement mistake instead of losing the rep outright.
- 03
Run-game displacement
Genuine movement blocker on down, duo and gap concepts, rolling his hips through contact and finishing defenders late.
- 04
Recovery balance
Regains position after early leverage losses that would put lighter tackles on the ground, and he plays through contact well.
- 05
Toughness and availability
Returned from a freshman meniscus surgery to start every game the next two seasons on a Joe Moore semifinalist line.
- 01
Foot quickness
Kick slide covers ground in a straight line but redirects late, and pure speed rushers can threaten his outside shoulder early.
- 02
Pad level
Plays tall out of his stance at times, which raises his center of gravity and invites inside counters underneath his punch.
- 03
Hand timing
Punch arrives in stages rather than together, so his strikes land late and he grabs cloth to compensate against sudden rushers.
- 04
Position flexibility
Projects to right tackle only, with the freshman left-tackle experience too brief and injury-shortened to count as evidence.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.20sp50
- Vertical
- 28inp50
- Broad jump
- 114inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.76sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.73sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Notre Dame | 2 |
| 2022 | Notre Dame | 13 |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 12 |
| Career | — | 27 |
Offensive linemen accumulate no counting stats. Season games sum exactly to the 27-game career total. 2022-23 starts reconcile with the Texans' official note of 25 combined starts at right tackle; 2021 is credited with the opener and the Fiesta Bowl only. No PFF snap or grade data verified for college, so none is listed.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Serviceable big-bodied right tackle who starts in stretches, holds up against power and gets exposed by speed off the edge.
Same right-tackle-only power profile who turned an anchor-first skill set into a long-term starting job in a run-heavy scheme.
Size-and-anchor swing tackle whose foot speed keeps him in a backup and jumbo-package role rather than a starting one.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Houston brought him along slowly. Fisher appeared in 15 games as a rookie in 2024, mostly as a swing tackle and extra blocker before injuries pushed him into the lineup down the stretch, and the results were what the tape suggested: sturdy against power, exposed by speed off the edge. In 2025 he played 16 games but only 337 snaps, and by late in the year Houston was using him as a jumbo eligible tackle in heavy packages while second-round rookie Aireontae Ersery absorbed the everyday tackle work.
In hindsight, the pick has been a useful one rather than a defining one. Fisher gave Houston exactly what his college profile promised — a big, tough, right-side body who can be trusted for a stretch of games — and the traits that were supposed to grow with an NFL program have grown slowly. The lesson here is the one this class kept teaching about tackles: length and anchor buy you a roster spot and a swing role, but the tackles who become long-term starters are the ones whose feet arrive before their hands, and Fisher is still working on that order.
Data note: Offensive linemen accumulate no counting stats. Season games sum exactly to the 27-game career total. 2022-23 starts reconcile with the Texans' official note of 25 combined starts at right tackle; 2021 is credited with the opener and the Fiesta Bowl only. No PFF snap or grade data verified for college, so none is listed.