Myles
Cole.
Myles
Cole.
Texas Tech· 6'6"· 278 lb· 4.67s 40
"At 6-6 and 278 pounds with a 4.67 forty, Myles Cole was never drafted for what he had done — he was drafted because a frame like that only comes along a few times a class, and the seventh round is where you pay for it."Pre-draft read
Cole is a 6-6, 278-pound edge who played the strong side for Texas Tech, aligned as a 5-tech in even fronts and a stand-up outside linebacker in odd looks. The frame is the mechanism: he has the length to hit a tackle's chest first, lock out and control the C-gap, and he sets a hard edge without giving ground. He wins with reach and a long-arm bull more often than with a first step.
As a rusher he is a converter, not a bender. He gets narrow at the top of the arc reluctantly, so pressure comes from power, a swipe on the second move, or a stunt that lets him run through interior air. The athletic ceiling is real for the size — 4.67 at 278 pounds — and the signature is a defender who is longer than the man across from him on every snap.
Multiple fronts that want a heavy strong-side end — 3-4 or big-nickel odd looks that ask the C-gap defender to two-gap on early downs and reduce inside as a power rusher on third down.
Year 1: base-down rotational edge and core special-teamer who plays 15-20 snaps against run-heavy personnel. Ceiling: a starting strong-side end on a front that never asks him to win one-on-one from a wide alignment.
A wide-nine, get-off-driven attacking front that grades its ends on pressure rate from a track stance — his tight hips and single-move plan get erased by tackles who can simply ride him past the pocket.
Value rises sharply if a staff commits to developing an inside counter; without it he is a two-down body.
NFL Draft Film Ep 884: Myles Cole / EDGE / Texas Tech / 2023 / Full Highlights
Full 2023 senior-season cutup: the long-arm bull rush, edge-setting reps and the 6.5 TFL that carried his draft case.
Film Room: Texas Tech DE Myles Cole Vs Texas: All Snaps
Every snap against Texas — the cleanest look at how he handles Power Five tackles and where the bend limitation shows up.
Myles Cole Highlights, Jacksonville Jaguars | DE 2024 NFL Draft (Round 7, Pick 236) Texas Tech
Draft-day highlight package assembled after Jacksonville took him at 236.
Cole is a developmental power edge in an outsized body, a six-year college player who arrived at Texas Tech as a graduate transfer from Louisiana-Monroe and spent his final autumn learning to use what he had. He is a run-first defender: he plays the edge with leverage, keeps his hands inside and turns plays back, and he is comfortable reducing inside on passing downs.
The production tells the whole story of the timeline. Three quiet years at ULM produced almost nothing, and even his 2021 line was 28 tackles with a half sack in 12 games. Texas Tech got 12 tackles from him in 2022, then the light came on in 2023: 32 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks across 12 games, plus a Senior Bowl invitation. The flags were obvious — one productive season, tight hips, and a rush plan that ran out of ideas after the initial punch.
Boards had him as a late Day 3 traits swing, the kind of body-type pick teams take in the seventh round and hand to a defensive line coach. Jacksonville took him at 236 as a rotational strong-side end and special-teams candidate, betting that the tools and the Combine number would eventually outrun the tape.
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Length and frame
At 6-6 with a wingspan that lets him strike first, he routinely gets his hands into a tackle's chest before the tackle gets into his, and controls the exchange from there.
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Edge setting
Plays the run with real leverage for a tall defender, keeps his outside arm free and turns ball carriers back inside instead of getting washed.
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Straight-line athlete for the size
A 4.67 forty and a 35-inch vertical at 278 pounds mean he can chase down the line and close on a quarterback who climbs.
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Power conversion
When he lands the long-arm his lower half follows, and he can walk a tackle into the pocket rather than stalling at the point of contact.
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Positional versatility
Took snaps as a 5-tech, a stand-up outside linebacker and a reduced interior rusher, which gives a coordinator four-front flexibility.
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One year of production
Five college seasons yielded 5.0 sacks total, and 3.5 of them came in his final autumn at Texas Tech.
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Bend at the top of the arc
Tall and tight through the hips, he rounds the corner instead of cornering it, and tackles who slide with him survive.
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Rush plan
Almost everything starts with the long-arm; the counter, the cross-chop and the inside spin are all late arrivals in his toolbox.
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Age and runway
He turned 24 during his rookie season after six years on campus, so the developmental window teams pay for is shorter than the tape suggests.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.67sp50
- Vertical
- 35inp50
- Broad jump
- 120inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- —s
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Louisiana-Monroe | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Louisiana-Monroe | 12 | 28 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Texas Tech | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Texas Tech | 12 | 32 | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Career | — | 59 | 85 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
cfbstats.com covers 2020-2023 only (45 games, 82 tackles, 11.5 TFL, 5.0 sacks). Official career totals include his 2018 and 2019 seasons at Louisiana-Monroe (34 total games and 41 tackles across four Warhawk years, 25 games and 44 tackles at Texas Tech), giving 59 games, 85 tackles and 5.0 career sacks. Career TFL, pass breakups and fumble recoveries for 2018-2019 are unpublished and left null rather than zero-filled.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Long, athletic seventh-round edge who bounces between 53-man depth and practice squads while the pass-rush plan never arrives.
The optimistic outcome: a heavy end who carves out a real rotational role setting edges and collapsing pockets with power.
Used here as the cautionary version — a traits edge who needs three seasons to matter and may never get them on a fringe contract.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Jacksonville kept him on the 53 as a rookie in 2024 and used him sparingly: eight games, eight tackles and one stop for loss, mostly on special teams and in blowout rotation snaps. The 2025 preseason went the wrong way — he slid down a crowded Jaguars edge depth chart, was let go, and spent seven weeks of the season on the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad without appearing in a regular-season game. New Orleans signed him to a reserve/future contract in January 2026, bringing the Shreveport native home, and he entered the 2026 summer as a depth body competing for a spot on the defensive front.
In hindsight, the pick was exactly what a 236th selection should be: a free swing at a rare frame with nothing lost when it does not hit cleanly. Cole has been what the tape said he was — an enormous, functional run defender whose pass-rush plan never expanded enough to earn snaps on obvious passing downs. He is not a bust at that cost; he is a player whose one good college season turned out to be the ceiling rather than the beginning of a curve.
Data note: cfbstats.com covers 2020-2023 only (45 games, 82 tackles, 11.5 TFL, 5.0 sacks). Official career totals include his 2018 and 2019 seasons at Louisiana-Monroe (34 total games and 41 tackles across four Warhawk years, 25 games and 44 tackles at Texas Tech), giving 59 games, 85 tackles and 5.0 career sacks. Career TFL, pass breakups and fumble recoveries for 2018-2019 are unpublished and left null rather than zero-filled.