Dylan
Mcmahon.
Dylan
Mcmahon.
North Carolina St.· 6'3"· 299 lb· 5.10s 40
"An undersized, four-position interior lineman whose case is entirely between the ears and in the first two steps: he will always know where to go, and the question is whether he can hold anything once he gets there."Pre-draft read
McMahon is a lean, technique-first interior lineman who lined up at all three inside spots for NC State and settled at center as a senior. His game is built on timing and processing: he is quick out of his stance, hits his landmarks on reach and cut-off blocks, and sorts twists and line games without panicking. Nothing is violent; little is late.
The secondary trait is range. He climbs to the second level under control and finds moving linebackers in space, a natural zone trait. In pass protection he redirects and mirrors well enough to slow rushers across his face. The signature is the mind and the feet; the ceiling is capped by a slight frame that gets stacked and walked back when the block turns into a strength contest.
Outside/wide-zone rushing offense that asks its center to reach, climb and communicate rather than displace
Year 1: backup center and emergency interior swing who wins the job on communication and stunt pickup. Ceiling: a low-end zone-scheme starting center on a team that protects him with strong guards.
A gap/duo power run game that asks the center to reset the line of scrimmage on down blocks, or a front-heavy division where he sees 340-pound two-gap nose tackles weekly — his anchor gets exposed on the first snap.
Best paired with a quarterback who works on rhythm; he sorts pressure fast but cannot hold a collapsing pocket long.
#Pack19: OL Dylan McMahon
Feature introducing McMahon as an NC State interior line signee.
NC State OL Dylan McMahon on rivalry game vs UNC
Senior-year availability where McMahon walks through the interior line game plan.
NC State center Dylan McMahon interview
Interview covering his move to center and the communication load of the pivot.
A five-year Wolfpack lineman who redshirted in 2019 and then started 44 games across right guard, center and left guard, McMahon entered the 2024 cycle as one of the most experienced interior players in the class. He finished at center, where his football IQ and communication were the selling points, and where his brother Ryan had already made a career at Florida State.
The senior tape was the cleanest of the run: 11 starts at center, team captain, All-ACC honorable mention, and a Shrine Bowl invitation, all inside an NC State offense that leaned run-first with zone as the base and gap concepts mixed in. That scheme flattered him. He reached his landmarks, worked to the second level and passed off games cleanly. The flags were physical, not mental: 299 pounds on a narrow frame, 31 3/4-inch arms, and a habit of getting stacked and shed by push-pull.
The board read him as a late-round developmental center rather than a starter. Evaluators liked the versatility and the head; they did not believe the anchor would hold against NFL nose tackles. Philadelphia took him at 190 as a development bet on its offensive line room — the profile of player that program has turned into a starter before, and a reasonable swing at that cost.
- 01
Four-position interior flexibility
44 career starts split across right guard (22), center (14) and left guard (8) gave him real reps at every inside spot.
- 02
Twist and stunt recognition
sorts line games early, passes off cleanly and rarely gets caught turning the wrong shoulder on interior pressure looks.
- 03
Zone landmarks
quick out of his stance with the footwork to reach and cut off play-side defenders in an outside-zone or wide-zone run game.
- 04
Second-level range
climbs under control and locates moving linebackers in space, which shows up on stretch plays and screens.
- 05
Center intangibles
senior captain and line caller who handled the pivot's identification duties and earned All-ACC honorable mention in his only full year there.
- 01
Anchor strength
lacks the play strength to hold the point against heavy nose tackles and gets walked back when a rusher converts speed to power.
- 02
Frame and length
a slight 299-pound build with 31 3/4-inch arms means defenders get into his chest before he can land first.
- 03
Push-pull vulnerability
easily stacked, shed and slipped when a defender jerks him off balance rather than trying to run through him.
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Gap-scheme fit
struggles to displace bodies on down blocks and duo, which narrows him to a specific run system rather than any offense.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.10sp50
- Vertical
- 33inp50
- Broad jump
- 115inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.26sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.33sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | NC State | 0 |
| 2020 | NC State | — |
| 2021 | NC State | — |
| 2022 | NC State | — |
| 2023 | NC State | 11 |
| Career | — | 11 |
Offensive linemen accumulate no box-score production, so only verified games and starts are listed.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
A light, smart, zone-scheme interior lineman who bounced between rosters before carving out real starts. The realistic path.
The undersized-center archetype taken to its extreme — Kelce turned elite quickness and processing into a Hall of Fame career; the ceiling comp, not the expectation.
Versatile interior depth who lived on practice squads and emergency call-ups without ever locking down a role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Philadelphia never got him to a game day. McMahon was waived on cut-down day in August 2024 and re-signed to the practice squad, and the Rams — reeling from a wave of offensive line injuries — signed him off it to their 53-man roster on September 11. Los Angeles carried him all season as the emergency interior piece and finally used him in Week 18 against Seattle, where he started at center and played 65 offensive snaps in the one appearance of his career. He was tendered as an exclusive-rights free agent in March 2025 and re-signed that April, then was released at the 2025 cutdown and spent the year on the Rams' practice squad before signing a reserve/future deal in January 2026.
In hindsight the pre-draft read has held almost exactly. The intelligence and the versatility were real enough to make him a valuable developmental body for two organizations that know offensive line play, and the anchor concern was real enough to keep him from beating out anyone on a Rams line that stayed largely healthy. This is what a sixth-round interior lineman usually looks like: not a miss, not a hit, a professional who has stayed employed on merit and needs one injury window and one clean camp to change the arc. At 25 with a future contract in hand, that window is still open.
Data note: Offensive linemen accumulate no box-score production, so only verified games and starts are listed.