Tyler
Guyton.
Tyler
Guyton.
Oklahoma· 6'8"· 322 lb· 5.19s 40
"Guyton is a tight end's athlete stuck in a 6-foot-7 tackle frame: he wins the corner before the rusher gets there, and the entire evaluation rides on whether technique ever catches up to the movement."Pre-draft read
A 6-foot-7, 320-pound right tackle who moved like a tight end in a tackle's body, Guyton played the position on angles and speed rather than accumulated technique. He set with easy width, mirrored to the top of the arc without losing his frame, and could recover from a beaten first step because his length and lateral burst bought him a second chance most tackles never get.
The run game is where the athleticism turned into offense: he climbed to linebackers on the move, cut off backside pursuit and had real finish once he latched. Pass protection was more theory than habit — hands late, waist bending against power — but the physical ceiling was the highest of any tackle in the class, and that was the whole argument.
Outside and wide-zone run game with quick-game and play-action passing — an offense that uses his range on the move and does not leave him isolated in seven-step drop-back protection every snap.
Year 1: developmental starting right tackle in a zone scheme with chip help against long-armed power rushers. Ceiling: a top-15 left tackle whose range on the move erases backside pursuit once his hand timing and anchor stabilize.
A drop-back, five-and-seven-step passing offense that leaves its tackles on an island against B-gap power every down and asks for hand-fighting technicians rather than movers, with no tight end or back to chip the edge.
Side assignment matters unusually much with him: his college value was built almost entirely at right tackle, and the flip to the blind side was a coaching bet, not a scouting conclusion.
NFL Draft: Tyler Guyton Vs Texas: All Pass Blocks
Every pass-blocking rep against Texas: the width of the set, the recovery length, and the late hands.
Film Room: Tyler Guyton Vs Oklahoma St: All Pass Pro
Rivalry-game protection cut-up showing both the arc-bending mirror and the waist-bend against power.
Cowboys OT Tyler Guyton: 2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report
Pre-draft breakdown of the traits-versus-technique argument and the right-to-left projection.
Guyton was the class's most obvious projection: 29 career games, 15 career starts, and almost all of that snap volume on the right side, being asked at the next level to protect a blind side he had barely played. Evaluators were not grading a finished tackle; they were grading a rare mover with a year of real starting tape.
The production supported the traits without ever settling the questions. He was honorable-mention All-Big 12 in 2023, allowed no sacks on 355 pass-blocking snaps that fall, and gave up two sacks total across his college career per PFF. But the sample was thin, the injuries chipped at it, and the reps against long-armed power still ended with him upright and sliding rather than sinking and anchoring. Penalties and pad level were flagged as habit problems, not one-game blips.
Boards had him anywhere from the late first to the middle of the second depending on how much a room trusted development over reps. Dallas traded down five spots, took the traits, and immediately asked him to flip sides — the aggressive version of the call, and the one that put the burden of the pick on coaching.
- 01
Rare movement skill
Bends the arc and reaches the second level like a player 40 pounds lighter, which shows up on every screen, pull and climb.
- 02
Recovery length
Long arms and lateral burst let him reset after a lost first step, turning would-be pressures into stalemates on the edge.
- 03
Run-game finisher
Once he latches on the move he runs feet through contact and puts defenders on the ground rather than shielding them.
- 04
Clean pass-protection production
Allowed just two sacks on 548 career pass-blocking snaps per PFF, including zero on 355 snaps in 2023.
- 05
Positional upside
Physical tools project to either tackle spot, which is why rooms graded the ceiling rather than the current tape.
- 01
Thin resume
Only 15 career starts across four seasons, with most of the meaningful volume compressed into one Big 12 fall.
- 02
Anchor against power
Bends at the waist and gets walked back when bull-rushed, losing the depth of the pocket instead of sinking into it.
- 03
Hand timing
Strikes late and wide, letting rushers into his chest and forcing grab-and-hold recoveries that draw flags.
- 04
Left-tackle projection
Logged just 70 career snaps at left tackle, so his NFL assignment was essentially a new position.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.19sp50
- Vertical
- 34.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 107inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.50sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.71sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | TCU | 1 |
| 2021 | TCU | 8 |
| 2022 | Oklahoma | 10 |
| 2023 | Oklahoma | 10 |
| Career | — | 29 |
Verified against Oklahoma official bio: 29 career games (nine at TCU, 20 at Oklahoma) and 14 starts as a Sooner plus one at TCU. Season games sum exactly to the 29-game career total and starts to 15. Snap and sack-allowed figures are PFF as cited by the school; no other statistical splits are tracked for offensive linemen and none were invented.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
An athletic zone-scheme starter who is good on the move and merely adequate against pure power — a solid but not settled blind-side answer.
The ceiling if the technique ever matches the movement: a left tackle who wins with range, balance and recovery rather than mass.
The conservative outcome: a mid-tier starter whose penalties and anchor keep the offense scheming help to his side.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Dallas plugged him in at left tackle as a rookie and the transition looked exactly as raw as the tape warned. He logged 666 snaps in 2024, started 11 of the 15 games he appeared in, allowed six sacks and 26 pressures, and drew a team-high 18 flags — eight holds and five false starts — before a high ankle sprain cost him snaps down the stretch and forced a rotation with Chuma Edoga. Year two was cleaner: 10 starts, 650 snaps, only two sacks and 31 total pressures allowed, and the penalty count cut from 18 to seven, though the season again ended early and his PFF pass-blocking grade still sat near the bottom of qualified tackles.
The honest read is that the pick has been neither vindicated nor buried. The traits are still visible in the run game and the flags have come down, which is the growth you draft for at 29. What has not arrived is a settled left tackle — the anchor still gives, the availability still wobbles, and Dallas has spent two years developing a player most rooms had graded as a project. He remains a starter, not yet a solution.
Data note: Verified against Oklahoma official bio: 29 career games (nine at TCU, 20 at Oklahoma) and 14 starts as a Sooner plus one at TCU. Season games sum exactly to the 29-game career total and starts to 15. Snap and sack-allowed figures are PFF as cited by the school; no other statistical splits are tracked for offensive linemen and none were invented.