Jaden
Crumedy.
Jaden
Crumedy.
Mississippi St.· 6'4"· 301 lb· 4.97s 40
"A five-year Starkville anchor whose hands and shed timing outrun his get-off, Crumedy was drafted as insurance against a thin interior rotation rather than as a solution to one."Pre-draft read
Crumedy is a heavy-handed interior lineman who lines up anywhere from shade nose to a light 5-technique and wins his money downs against the run. He plays with a wide base and legitimate lower-body density at 6-4, 301, and his best reps come when he can flatten a guard's shoulder, stack, and shed late instead of getting washed down the line.
The pass rush is a bull-first menu: long arm, push-pull, and an occasional swim when a guard oversets. He is not a bender or a twitch athlete, so pressure arrives on the second and third hitch rather than off the snap. The separator is his shed timing against gap schemes, where he consistently finds the ball while still engaged.
Best in a multiple front that lets him two-gap on early downs and rotate out on obvious passing situations; the run-defense value is the entire pitch.
Year 1 rotational early-down run defender at 15-20 snaps; ceiling is a steady two-down interior starter on a run-heavy division schedule.
An attacking wide-9 or NASCAR sub package that asks its interior players to win one-on-ones with get-off; his late snap timing is exposed on third-and-long.
Value is tied to a defense that keeps a true rotation and does not ask him to rush the passer on a fixed snap count.
NFL Draft Film Ep 331: Jaden Crumedy / DT / Mississippi State
Full pre-draft film breakdown of Crumedy's interior run defense and bull-rush reps.
Jaden Crumedy | 94 | Mississippi State Bulldogs DT
Season highlight reel showing anchor, hand usage and shed timing in the SEC.
Jaden Crumedy Highlights, Carolina Panthers | DT
Rookie-year NFL rotational snaps with the Panthers.
Crumedy came out of Mississippi State as a fifth-year interior defender whose tape read older than his production line: patient, technically sound, and hard to displace, without the burst that turns those reps into splash. He is a run-first defensive tackle with a defined role rather than a projection built on traits.
Five seasons in Starkville produced 48 games, 120 tackles, 15.5 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks, numbers that never spiked because he was never asked to be the pass-rush engine and lost most of 2022 to injury. His 2023 return was his most complete season at 35 tackles, 3.5 for loss and 2.5 sacks, and it confirmed what evaluators liked: a two-down anchor who holds a gap, keeps linebackers clean and finishes plays inside the tackle box. The athletic testing matched the tape, with a 4.97 forty and modest explosion numbers.
Boards had him as a late Day 3 rotational body, and Carolina took him at 200 for exactly that: interior depth in a front that needed bodies who could two-gap without being a liability. Nobody drafted him expecting a starter; they drafted the floor.
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Anchor at the point
Sinks his hips and holds ground against down blocks and single-gap doubles, rarely losing his gap when he wins the leverage battle first.
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Hand strength
Heavy, accurate punch that stuns guards and lets him control the block long enough to read the run fit and disengage.
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Shed timing
Feels the ball behind him and releases the block at the right beat, which is why his tackles come at the line rather than downfield.
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Positional versatility
Took snaps from 0-technique to 5-technique in Starkville, giving a coordinator flexibility to move him across a multiple front.
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Football maturity
Five-year program player with reliable assignment discipline, low mental-error rate and no wasted reps in the run game.
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First-step burst
Late off the snap far too often, which caps his pass rush and lets guards get to their landmarks before he can threaten a gap.
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Pass-rush plan
Bull rush is the whole menu; the counters are slow-developing and he lacks the bend to flatten to the quarterback.
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Athletic ceiling
4.97 forty with a 29.5-inch vertical confirms an average-at-best explosion profile for an interior player without elite length.
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Durability and volume
Missed most of 2022 and never carried a heavy snap count, so the projection is a rotational role, not a 700-snap starter.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.97sp50
- Vertical
- 29.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 105inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- 4.66sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Mississippi State | 9 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Mississippi State | 11 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | Mississippi State | 11 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | Mississippi State | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Mississippi State | 12 | 35 | 2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Career | — | 48 | 120 | 8.5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Verified season-by-season via CFBD box-score aggregation (2019-2023); seasons sum to career totals. Forced fumbles, fumble recoveries and interceptions were not published for every season and are left null.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Late Day 3 interior body who sticks on rosters as rotational run depth without a defined pass-rush role.
Compact leverage-first interior who turned run-down reliability into a long starting career.
Heavy-bodied nose whose lack of burst limits him to practice-squad churn between organizations.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Carolina stashed him immediately: Crumedy opened his rookie year on injured reserve in August 2024, was activated in November and played five games down the stretch, finishing with 13 combined tackles and half a sack in spot rotational duty. The 2025 season was a churn year — he made the initial 53, was waived a day later, came back on the practice squad, was signed back to the active roster in September, played three games with two combined tackles, and was waived at the end of October when the Panthers needed edge help. Green Bay signed him to a reserve/future deal in January 2026, and he entered the 2026 season on the Packers' defensive line depth chart.
In hindsight the pick is doing exactly what a 200th selection is supposed to do: he has stayed employable in the league for three years without ever locking down a role. Eight games and 15 combined tackles across two seasons is thin, but he was never mispriced. The bet was on a floor-level run defender who can be activated when a front gets thin, and that bet has been quietly correct.
Data note: Verified season-by-season via CFBD box-score aggregation (2019-2023); seasons sum to career totals. Forced fumbles, fumble recoveries and interceptions were not published for every season and are left null.