Chase
Lundt.
Chase
Lundt.
Connecticut· 6'8"· 304 lb
"A durable, long-levered collegiate right tackle with the movement skills for zone schemes, Lundt's NFL projection hinges on his ability to anchor against power rushers after an injury-marred pre-draft process."Pre-draft read
Four-year starting right tackle with a long, high-cut frame who wins with foot quickness and hand timing rather than raw mass. Lundt gets to his landmark fast in outside zone, reaches the play-side shade cleanly and climbs to the second level with real control, adjusting his angle to cut off linebackers in space instead of lunging past them.
In protection he plays with a patient, quiet base and an accurate initial punch, resetting his hands quickly when the first strike misses. Against speed he mirrors comfortably to the arc; against power he can get stacked and walked into the pocket when his pads rise. His signature is efficiency in movement — 3,000-plus snaps at right tackle with almost no wasted steps.
Wide-zone/outside-zone run game that asks tackles to reach shades and climb, paired with a quick-rhythm passing attack.
Year 1: developmental swing tackle and jumbo-package sixth lineman. Ceiling: starting right tackle in a movement-based zone scheme.
A gap/duo power run game that asks him to generate vertical displacement on down blocks and hold up one-on-one against 330-pound bull rushers.
His value is tied to the scheme moving him; static, phone-booth football exposes the anchor.
Chase Lundt Right Tackle Highlights
Career right tackle reel: reach blocks, second-level climbs and pass sets.
Chase Lundt Prospect Analysis: The Most Mobile Offensive Lineman
Film breakdown focused on his movement skills in the zone run game.
Trench Warfare 2025 NFL Draft Film Room — UConn RT Chase Lundt
Long-form all-22 study of hand usage, anchor and mirror ability.
A two-star recruit who never left Storrs, Lundt became one of the most durable linemen in the country: four straight seasons as UConn's starting right tackle and 49 career starts, never missing a start once he won the job as a redshirt freshman. He is a movement-based tackle with legitimate NFL length and a technician's hands.
The 2024 tape was the best of the run — he did not allow a sack while helping UConn to a 9-4 season and a Fenway Bowl win behind the second-most rushing yards in program history. The flags were level of competition and anchor. American Athletic edge rushers rarely stressed him with true NFL power, and when bull-rushed by heavier defenders he surrendered ground rather than sinking and re-anchoring. An MCL sprain in the bowl game kept him out of most Combine testing, which cost him a clean athletic profile at a moment when he needed one.
The board had him as a late Day 3 developmental tackle with swing-tackle value. Buffalo, a zone-heavy run team that had just invested in the interior, took the traits and the start count at 206 and accepted that he would need a redshirt year of NFL strength work.
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Reach-block quickness
Elite first-step speed to the play-side landmark in outside zone, sealing shades he has no business reaching on paper.
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Second-level climbing
Genuinely comfortable in space, adjusting his path to fit linebackers on the move instead of falling off blocks at contact.
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Hand timing
Accurate, well-timed initial punch that lands inside the frame, with a quick reset when the first strike is knocked away.
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Durability and availability
Started 49 straight games at right tackle across four seasons, essentially never off the field for UConn.
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Pass-set patience
Quiet, unhurried kick-slide that keeps him square against speed rushers and lets him mirror counters to the inside.
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Anchor strength
Gets stacked and walked backward by heavy bull rushers when his pads rise, giving up depth he cannot recover.
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Play strength at the point
Struggles to displace defenders in short-yardage gap concepts where movement and angles are unavailable to him.
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Level of competition
Faced very few NFL-caliber edge rushers in the American, leaving projection questions about pro-speed-to-power.
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Testing profile
A bowl-game MCL sprain wiped out most of his Combine workout, so his athletic traits were graded on tape alone.
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| Yr | Team | G |
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| 2021 | Connecticut | — |
| 2022 | Connecticut | 13 |
| 2023 | Connecticut | 12 |
| 2024 | Connecticut | 13 |
| Career | — | 38 |
Redshirted in 2019; UConn did not play a 2020 season. Four-year starting right tackle: 49 career starts (11+13+12+13). The 2021 game total is not individually verified and is left blank rather than estimated. Allowed zero sacks in 2024.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Long-term swing-tackle depth who spot-starts in a zone scheme.
Movement tackle who added functional strength in the NFL and became a starter.
Big-frame developmental tackle who never sticks past backup snaps.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Buffalo treated the rookie year as a developmental redshirt. Lundt spent 2025 on the active roster behind Dion Dawkins and Spencer Brown, was inactive for most of the fall and dressed for just two games — Week 4 against New Orleans and Week 13 at Pittsburgh — logging three offensive snaps all season and no penalties or pressures allowed on that microscopic sample. He entered the 2026 offseason still on the roster as the swing-tackle developmental piece behind the two starters.
In hindsight the pick reads exactly as it was priced: a sixth-round bet on movement traits and 49 starts, with no expectation of Year 1 contribution. The bet is still live but unproven. Nothing about the rookie season answered the anchor question that dropped him to Day 3, because he never faced an NFL bull rush in a live game. His path to a roster spot in 2026 runs through backup-swing-tackle value and the strength gains Buffalo drafted him to make, and if the weight-room progress does not show up, the profile stays exactly where it started.
Data note: Redshirted in 2019; UConn did not play a 2020 season. Four-year starting right tackle: 49 career starts (11+13+12+13). The 2021 game total is not individually verified and is left blank rather than estimated. Allowed zero sacks in 2024.