Sedrick
Van Pran-Granger.
Sedrick
Van Pran-Granger.
Georgia· 6'4"· 298 lb· 5.20s 40
"A center who ran a national-title offense at the line of scrimmage — the calls, the timing and the pass sets all travel; the anchor is the reason he was still there on Day 3."Pre-draft read
Three-year starting center for a two-time national champion, Van Pran-Granger is a zone-scheme pivot who wins with timing, angles and communication rather than raw power. He fires out low on reach and slide blocks, gets his near hand inside on the play side, and climbs to second-level linebackers with balance while setting the front and passing off games.
The pass sets are where the tape sings: quick, square, patient hands and a real feel for stunts next to young guards. The run game is more placement than displacement — he steers a shade rather than burying him. His signature is operational: a center who ran an SEC title offense at the line and almost never blew an assignment.
Outside/inside zone and wide-zone offenses that ask the center to reach one-gap shades, work combinations to the second level and own the pre-snap protection calls.
Year 1 as the backup center and emergency protection caller, dressing on gameday for jumbo and field-goal work; ceiling is a decade-long starting zone center in an offense that protects him from true nose tackles.
A gap/power run scheme fronted by 340-pound two-gap nose tackles, or a team that needs its backup center to double as a guard — the anchor and the arm length both fail that test.
His value is scheme-specific and position-specific: zone center, nothing else.
Sedrick Van Pran Vs Ohio State (2022): All Pass Blocks
Every pass-protection rep against Ohio State in the 2022 playoff — the cleanest look at his sets and hand timing.
Film Room: Sedrick Van Pran Vs Kentucky
Film-room breakdown of his reach blocks and second-level climbs in the SEC run game.
Sedrick Van Pran Draft Profile | 2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report
Pre-draft scouting report covering the operational strengths and the anchor concerns.
Van Pran-Granger arrived as a technician and a coordinator on the field. Georgia trusted him to make the calls in a pro-style, heavy-personnel offense that asked its center to identify fronts, set slides and reach-block one-gap defenders on the move. He is a functional athlete rather than an explosive one, and the value is in the operation: snap quality, cadence, protection IDs, hand timing.
Three years of uninterrupted starting at the sport's highest level — with two national titles blocked from that spot — is the resume, and 2023 brought the individual recognition to match it as a Rimington finalist and All-SEC pick. The flags are physical. His anchor gets loaded up by heavy nose tackles, the recovery strength after a poor first hand is limited, and the arms are short of the ideal if a team wants to kick him to guard.
Boards had him in the Day 2 conversation through the fall, but the combine did nothing for the athletic profile and the strength questions never resolved. Late on Day 3 this is a fair swing: a plug-and-play backup center with real starting reps banked, into a Buffalo room that wanted an intelligent understudy able to carry the pre-snap load if the starter went down.
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Pre-snap operation
Ran Georgia's front identifications, slide calls and check-with-me protections in a pro-style offense, and rarely put a teammate in a losing assignment.
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Reach block timing
Fires off low and flat to the play side, wins the outside hand early, and turns one-gap shades out of the run lane in zone concepts.
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Pass-set technique
Quick, square, patient sets with well-timed hands; he absorbs the first move and resets rather than lunging into space.
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Stunt and game recognition
Passes off twists and picks up delayed pressure cleanly, which is why young guards next to him looked steadier than they were.
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Proven durability
Three uninterrupted seasons as the starting center at the highest level of college football, with two national titles blocked from that spot.
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Anchor versus power
Heavy nose tackles load him up and walk him back into the quarterback's lap when they win the first hand.
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Recovery strength
Once his hands land outside or late, he lacks the grip and torso power to reset the block and salvage the rep.
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Displacement in gap runs
He steers and sustains more than he moves people, which caps him in downhill man-blocking run schemes.
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Length and positional flex
Short arms for a guard kick, so his professional value is tied almost entirely to playing center.
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| Yr | Team | G |
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| 2020 | Georgia | 4 |
| 2021 | Georgia | — |
| 2022 | Georgia | — |
| 2023 | Georgia | — |
| Career | — | 4 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Verified: appeared in 4 games in 2020 while preserving a redshirt, then started every game at center from 2021 through 2023. Sources disagree on the exact consecutive-start total (43 per On3, 44 per the Bills' club bio), so the career and season start counts are left blank rather than guessed.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- Rimington Trophy finalist (2023)
- First-team All-SEC (2023)
- SEC Jacob Blocking Trophy (2023)
- Two-time CFP national champion (2021, 2022)
Smart, undersized-strength center who stuck as a valued backup and spot starter without winning the job outright.
Cerebral zone center whose processing and technique carried him into a long run of starts despite ordinary power.
Highly regarded college center whose anchor never held up in the NFL, leaving him a practice-squad body.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Buffalo took him as insurance behind an established interior and used him exactly that way. As a rookie he worked into sixteen games on special teams and jumbo packages and made his first NFL start in the season finale at New England in January 2025, then played in the postseason. Year two was the same shape: dressed nearly every week, spot duty inside, fewer than a hundred offensive snaps on the season, with his pass protection grading far better than his run blocking on that small sample. He enters 2026 still on the roster, still on his rookie deal, and finally in a genuine conversation for interior snaps.
In hindsight the evaluation was mostly right and the price was right with it. The intelligence and the pass-set technique travelled; the play strength that made teams nervous is precisely what has kept him from taking a job. He is a competent NFL backup center who can start in a pinch and run a protection without the offense shrinking — a genuinely useful outcome for a fifth-round pick, just not the Day 2 starter the fall tape suggested.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Verified: appeared in 4 games in 2020 while preserving a redshirt, then started every game at center from 2021 through 2023. Sources disagree on the exact consecutive-start total (43 per On3, 44 per the Bills' club bio), so the career and season start counts are left blank rather than guessed.