Zion
Logue.
Zion
Logue.
Georgia· 6'6"· 314 lb· 5.14s 40
"A 6-6 Georgia two-gapper who was drafted for the anchor and the arms, not the numbers — the kind of pick that only works if a defense actually needs someone to hold the point."Pre-draft read
Logue is a 6-6, 314-pound two-gap interior lineman who did the least glamorous job on the best defense in college football. He aligns mostly as a 4i and heavy 3-technique: he catches blockers, extends, locks out, and works down the line instead of chasing a first step he does not have. The hands are heavy and the anchor holds against down blocks and doubles.
The second trait is reach. Long arms let him disengage late and finish a tackle a gap outside his own. He is a run-down player first — the pass rush is a bull-and-push with no counter behind it, and pressure comes from shrinking the pocket, not beating a man clean. The athletic ceiling is modest, but the frame carries weight, and the signature is simple: he does not get moved.
Multiple 3-4/odd front that wants a two-gap, early-down interior body who can play 4i and nose in a heavy rotation.
Year 1: 15-20 early-down snaps a game as a run-down space-eater on a deep line, plus field-goal block. Ceiling: two-down starter at 4i who holds the point on first and second and comes off on passing downs.
A one-gap, get-up-the-field 4-3 front or a wide-nine attack scheme that asks interior linemen to penetrate a gap and win with quickness — his get-off and rush plan give him nothing there.
Value is scheme-dependent: he is a real answer for a team that plays two-gap on early downs and a spare part for anyone who rushes four to win.
Zion Logue Highlights
Georgia reel showing the anchor, the two-gap lock-out and the late shed against SEC interior blockers.
Zion Logue on life on Georgia's DL without Jalen Carter
Logue explains the room's rebuilt rotation entering 2023 and his own move into a bigger snap share.
Georgia DL Zion Logue - Training Camp Presser
Camp availability from Athens covering his role, weight and the technique work behind his senior-year jump.
Logue is a developmental interior body with legitimate size, a clean four-year résumé at the highest level of college football, and very little statistical evidence to sell. Georgia asked him to hold the point, occupy blockers, and let the linebackers and edge players eat, and he did that job cleanly enough to stay in the rotation on two national title teams.
The production tells the story of the role rather than the player: 52 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks across 48 games, with his only real step coming as a senior in 2023 (17 tackles, 2.5 TFL, 0.5 sacks, three pass breakups). He was never the disruptor on those fronts — Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter and Nazir Stackhouse absorbed those snaps — and he arrived in the league with almost no pressure production to point at. The flags are the ones you would expect: heavy feet, a narrow pass-rush plan, and inconsistent pad level for a man that tall.
The board treated him as a late Day 3 traits pick, and that is exactly how Atlanta played it at 197. You are buying the frame, the length, the SEC reps and the coaching background, betting that a pro strength program and a defined nose-to-4i role turn a rotational college piece into a functional early-down body.
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Anchor at the point
heavy hands and a wide base let him absorb single blocks and hold ground on doubles without giving up depth.
- 02
Length
long arms create separation at first contact and let him shed late to finish tackles a gap outside his assignment.
- 03
Frame and durability
carries 314 pounds without softening, played 48 games across four seasons and never missed extended time.
- 04
Assignment discipline
Georgia trusted him in a two-gap role because he stays square, keeps his feet in the gap and rarely runs himself out of a play.
- 05
Program pedigree
four years in the best defensive line room in the country, with practice reps against NFL-caliber blockers every week.
- 01
Pass-rush plan
a bull-and-push rusher with no counter, no consistent hand swipe and almost no ability to win one-on-one on obvious throwing downs.
- 02
First step
average get-off means he is late into gaps and rarely disrupts before the blocker gets hands on him.
- 03
Pad level
tall build leads to high strikes against low, leveraged interior blockers, especially on down blocks.
- 04
Production
4.5 career tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks over four seasons is thin evidence, even accounting for the role he was asked to play.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.14sp50
- Vertical
- 29inp50
- Broad jump
- 109inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- 4.92sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Georgia | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Georgia | 15 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Georgia | 14 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | Georgia | 14 | 17 | 0.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Career | — | 48 | 52 | 1.5 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Verified against cfbstats.com season pages (2020-2023); 2019 was a non-participating redshirt year with no recorded defensive stats. Fumble recoveries not published by the school, left null.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Georgia teammate, same job description: a heavy body who eats snaps in a rotation without ever showing up on the stat sheet.
Different frame entirely, but the same outcome shape: a two-gap run defender who became a genuine early-down starter through anchor and technique.
Another Georgia interior lineman whose SEC reps did not translate to a defined NFL role beyond camp and practice squad.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Atlanta waived Logue at final cuts of his rookie summer and re-signed him to the practice squad, and Buffalo poached him off it on October 1, 2024. He appeared in two games for the Bills down that stretch and finished the rookie year with two tackles. In 2025 he stayed in the building as a rotational body behind Ed Oliver and Buffalo's drafted interior, logging three appearances, two tackles and a half sack, then signed a reserve/future deal and reported to camp in 2026 as depth on the defensive line.
In hindsight, this is what a sixth-round two-gapper usually becomes. The evaluation was accurate — the frame and the anchor were real, the pass rush and the production were not, and nothing in the last two years has changed that split. The gap between a Georgia rotation piece and an NFL rotation piece turned out to be snaps, not traits: he is good enough to survive on rosters and not yet disruptive enough to earn a defined role. He is 25, cheap and still employed by a contender, which is a real outcome at pick 197, but the ceiling was never higher than early-down depth.
Data note: Verified against cfbstats.com season pages (2020-2023); 2019 was a non-participating redshirt year with no recorded defensive stats. Fumble recoveries not published by the school, left null.