Trevor
Keegan.
Trevor
Keegan.
Michigan· 6'5"· 310 lb· 5.24s 40
"Three straight seasons anchoring the left guard spot on the best offensive line in college football, and the question was never whether he could block — it was whether the feet would ever be quick enough."Pre-draft read
Keegan is a five-year Michigan left guard built for a downhill, gap-heavy run game. He plays with a wide, heavy base and drives his feet on contact, and his best reps come on down blocks and duo double-teams where he can generate movement before climbing to the second level. Hand placement is clean and he rarely gets turned once he latches.
In pass protection he is a sit-and-anchor guard rather than a mirror artist. He absorbs bull rushes with good weight distribution and length, but quickness-based interior rushers can get to his edges when he sets flat. Athletic ceiling is average — he is not a puller who wins in space — and the separating trait is dependability: four years of high-level Big Ten reps with almost no wasted motion.
Gap / duo power run game with play-action, not a wide-zone offense
Year 1 swing interior backup and short-yardage jumbo blocker; ceiling of a multi-year starting left guard in a downhill gap scheme.
An outside-zone offense that asks guards to reach the backside shade and pull across the formation on a heavy diet of stretch runs.
His value climbs sharply on a line that runs duo and counter and can hide his lateral limitations behind a mobile center.
Film Room: Michigan IOL Trevor Keegan vs Purdue
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Every pass-protection rep against Ohio State's interior rush.
Philadelphia Eagles select Michigan G Trevor Keegan
Draft selection clip with college tape from the 2023 title run.
Keegan is a prototypical power-scheme guard whose evaluation is built on consistency rather than upside. He redshirted in 2019, played a reserve role across special teams and spot guard duty in the shortened 2020 season, then locked down left guard for three straight years on a Michigan line that won back-to-back Joe Moore Awards and a national title.
The resume is the production. He started 11 games at left guard in 2021, 11 more in 2022 on his way to first-team All-Big Ten, and all 15 in 2023 as a captain during the championship run, earning second-team honors. Forty-four games, 37 starts, zero drama. The flags were physical rather than technical: 32 3/8-inch arms that sit in the bottom quartile for the position, limited lateral range in space, and tightness redirecting against interior twist games.
The board saw a Day 3 developmental interior backup — the aggregate mocks had him in the sixth round and roughly the 33rd offensive lineman on the class — with a path to starting if the scheme fit was right, but without the recovery quickness for a wide-zone offense. Philadelphia taking him at 172 was a value pick behind an entrenched line, buying a technically mature body in a room that develops linemen better than anyone.
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Drive power
Wide base and constant leg churn create real vertical movement on down blocks and duo double-teams against Big Ten interior defenders.
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Anchor strength
Sits into bull rushes with sound weight distribution and rarely gets walked back into the quarterback's throwing lane.
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Hand placement
Lands inside with accurate, sticky hands and does not lose control of a defender once the initial fit is secured.
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Big-game experience
37 career starts on a line that won back-to-back Joe Moore Awards and a national title, twice earning All-Big Ten honors.
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Scheme intelligence
Handles combination blocks, twist pickups and communication at guard cleanly, which is why Michigan never took him off the field.
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Lateral quickness
Limited range in space; pulling reps and reach blocks in a wide-zone system consistently show up as his hardest assignments.
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Redirect ability
Tight hips make it difficult to recover against interior counters and stunts once his first set puts him on the wrong track.
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Arm length
Measured 32 3/8 inches at the combine, bottom-quartile for the position, and longer interior rushers can get into his frame first.
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Positional flexibility
Almost exclusively a left guard in college, so tackle emergency reps and center snapping were both projections, not evidence.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.24sp50
- Vertical
- 30.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 107inp50
- Three-cone
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- Shuttle
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- Bench
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| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Michigan | 7 |
| 2021 | Michigan | 11 |
| 2022 | Michigan | 11 |
| 2023 | Michigan | 15 |
| Career | — | 44 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Redshirted in 2019 with no appearances. 2020 starts are not published by an official source and are left blank rather than zero-filled; career starts reflect the three verified full-time seasons at left guard.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- CFP National Champion (2023)
- First-team All-Big Ten (2022)
- Second-team All-Big Ten (2023)
- All-Big Ten honoree (2021)
- Michigan team captain (2023)
- Joe Moore Award-winning offensive line (2021, 2022)
Heavy-handed interior backup who cross-trains and holds a roster spot for years.
Technically clean power guard who outlasts flashier athletes through consistency.
Developmental Eagles-system guard who never locks down a full-time starting job.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Philadelphia drafted Keegan into the best development room in football and onto the worst possible depth chart. Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens and Tyler Steen were all ahead of him, and his rookie year passed without meaningful regular-season work while the Eagles rolled to the Super Bowl LIX title. He cross-trained across both guard spots in the 2025 summer and made the initial 53 again, only to be waived on August 27 when the team cleared a spot for a veteran tackle. Dallas claimed him off waivers the next day. With the Cowboys he has been exactly what a roster needs from a fifth-round guard and nothing more: two appearances in 2025, no starts, and a return to camp in 2026 competing for the same interior swing job.
In hindsight the projection has held almost exactly. He was drafted as a power-scheme interior backup with a narrow path to starting, and that is what he has been — a dependable emergency body who has not yet been pushed into a full-time role. The length and lateral-range flags that dropped him to the fifth round were fair, and so was the price paid for them. This is not a miss so much as a pick that has delivered precisely the modest floor it promised, with the ceiling still theoretically open if an injury ever forces the issue.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics. Redshirted in 2019 with no appearances. 2020 starts are not published by an official source and are left blank rather than zero-filled; career starts reflect the three verified full-time seasons at left guard.