Dj
Glaze.
Dj
Glaze.
Maryland· 6'4"· 315 lb· 5.21s 40
"Everything DJ Glaze does well happens in the two seconds after the snap, and everything he does not happens the moment a rusher decides to go through him instead of around him."Pre-draft read
Glaze started at both tackle spots for Maryland and finished as the left tackle in a pass-first Big Ten offense. His game is built on feet and length: a clean vertical set, a wide base, and hands that land inside. He mirrors speed off the edge better than most Day 2 tackles because he does not overset — he stays square and rides the rusher past the pocket.
The run game is the lagging half. He is a positional blocker who seals and walls rather than a mauler who displaces, and he plays tall out of his stance on down blocks. The testing backs the pass-set profile: 5.21 in the 40 with a 1.78 ten-yard split at 315 pounds. The signature is pass protection — an 83.1 PFF pass-block grade, second among Big Ten tackles.
Zone-heavy, quick-game passing offense that asks tackles to reach and wall rather than displace, with chip help available against premier power rushers.
Year 1: swing tackle who can start on the right side immediately in pass-first game plans. Ceiling: a long-tenured starting right tackle whose pass-block grade carries a mediocre run-block grade.
A gap/power run scheme built on down blocks and pulling linemen, or an offense that leaves its tackles on an island against elite bull rushers with no chip or slide help.
Las Vegas asked him to do both halves of the job on a broken line, which exposed the anchor he never fixed.
Maryland Football | DJ Glaze
Official Maryland feature on Glaze during his starting run with the Terrapins.
Delmar Glaze Tackle Film
Pre-draft cut-up of his Maryland pass sets and run blocks.
Raiders Rookie DJ Glaze Looks Like A Steal | FILM REVIEW
Film review of his rookie-season snaps at right tackle in Las Vegas.
Long, light-footed tackle whose value is almost entirely in pass protection. Glaze arrived at Maryland as a three-star recruit, played early, and grew into a four-year lineman who handled both edges before settling at left tackle as a senior. He is a pass-set technician first, a run blocker second, and every projection starts from that split.
The 2023 tape is the case: 13 starts protecting the Big Ten's top passing attack, with one of the best pass-blocking grades in the country at the position. He handled speed rushers without panic and rarely lost cleanly. The flags are strength and finish — he lets defenders into his frame, he can be walked back by a true bull rush, and he does not generate movement in the run game. He needed weight and functional power, not technique.
The board read him as a developmental starter with a high floor in pass pro, most likely on the right side where the run-blocking gap matters less. Taking him at 77 was buying starter-quality feet and betting the strength comes. For a team that had to protect a quarterback immediately, that is a defensible price.
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Pass sets
clean, patient vertical kick with a wide base, and he does not overset, which keeps the inside counter covered.
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Length
long arms that land inside and lock out, giving him a second chance on reps where his footwork is late.
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Mirror ability
slides laterally without crossing his feet and can stay square to speed rushers deep into a rep.
- 04
Positional versatility
four-year starter experience at both left and right tackle, so the projection does not depend on a single side.
- 05
Recovery
when beaten off the snap he finds a way to redirect the rusher past the pocket instead of surrendering a clean lane.
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Anchor
a legitimate bull rush walks him into the quarterback because his lower-body strength does not match his frame.
- 02
Run displacement
he seals and walls rather than moving bodies, which caps him in a downhill gap-scheme run game.
- 03
Pad level
plays tall out of his stance on down blocks and loses the leverage battle against shorter interior defenders.
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Finish
rarely puts defenders on the ground and lets winning reps end in a stalemate instead of a burial at the second level.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.21sp50
- Vertical
- 25.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 104inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Maryland | 13 |
| Career | — | 40 |
Career totals verified via Maryland/Raiders official bio (40 GP, 32 starts, 2020-23). Per-season game and start splits for 2020-2022 are not published in a verifiable source and are intentionally omitted rather than estimated.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Steady starting right tackle with clean feet whose ceiling is capped by the run-game half of the job.
Technically sound pass-protecting tackle who started for a decade by never losing the edge, even without power.
Good feet, no anchor: a starter on paper who gets bumped inside or benched once the bull rushes land.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Raiders right tackle since 2024: 17 games and 14 starts as a rookie, then all 17 starts and 992 snaps in 2025 (60.6 PFF overall). Enters 2026 as the presumptive starter in an open camp competition.
Las Vegas needed him right away. He played all 17 games as a rookie in 2024 and made 14 starts at right tackle, stepping in when Thayer Munford went down and never really giving the job back — a competent, unspectacular debut for a third-rounder. In 2025 he started all 17 games, the only Raiders lineman to do so, and logged 992 snaps on a line that was among the league's worst. The volume came with damage: a 60.6 PFF overall grade, 65th of 89 qualifying tackles, a 54.9 run-block mark, and a sack total that told the story of a player asked to carry more than his strength allows.
The honest read is that Glaze became exactly what the tape said and no more: a durable, technically sound tackle who cannot yet win the strength battles that decide NFL edges. The pass-set traits translated; the anchor never arrived. He enters 2026 as the presumptive right tackle in an open camp competition, which is the fair label for a third-round pick who has started 31 of 34 possible games without proving he should. Good value for the round, unfinished as a player.
Data note: Career totals verified via Maryland/Raiders official bio (40 GP, 32 starts, 2020-23). Per-season game and start splits for 2020-2022 are not published in a verifiable source and are intentionally omitted rather than estimated.