Emery
Jones Jr..
Emery
Jones Jr..
LSU· 6'5"· 315 lb
"Emery Jones Jr. is an immovable, heavy-handed phone-booth anchor at right tackle or guard whose exceptional power and durability in the SEC will outweigh his athletic limitations on the edge."Pre-draft read
Three-year LSU right tackle who plays like a converted power forward: heavy hands, wide base, and a phone-booth anchor that lets him stall bull rushers without conceding depth. He sets with short, choppy steps rather than a long kick slide, invites contact early, and once he lands his inside hand the rep is usually over. Balance in confined space is the trait — he absorbs the first jolt and re-fits.
In the run game he is a mover, best on down blocks and short-area displacement where his mass and grip strength drive defenders off the spot. He climbs willingly to the second level but is a builder of speed, not a burst athlete, so his value narrows on wide zone. The signature is the finish: he plays through the whistle on every rep.
Gap and duo-heavy run game with a vertical-set, quick-game passing attack that keeps him working in a phone booth rather than in space.
Year 1: swing right side and jumbo package blocker. Ceiling: entrenched starting right guard or low-end starting right tackle in a power scheme.
A wide-zone offense that asks tackles to reach the backside 3-tech and climb on the move, where his build-up speed and tight ankles are exposed every snap.
The closer his kick slide gets to the ball, the better he plays.
Emery Jones Jr Full College Football Highlights | LSU Right Tackle | NFL Draft Film
Full career cut-up of his right tackle work at LSU.
LSU RT Emery Jones Vs Texas A&M 2024 | All Pass Blocks
Every pass-protection rep against Texas A&M in 2024.
Emery Jones Jr Right Tackle Highlights
Run-game finishes and anchor reps in condensed form.
Jones is a plug-and-play interior-or-right-side blocker whose identity is power and durability rather than movement. Baton Rouge native, four-star recruit, first career start in Week 3 of his true freshman year, and from there a fixture at right tackle next to Will Campbell on one of the most productive offensive lines in college football. Freshman All-America in 2022, second-team All-SEC in both 2023 and 2024.
The production context is unusually strong: LSU averaged roughly 40 points and 475 yards a game across his three seasons and he played every offensive snap in 24 of 25 SEC games, the lone exception an injury eight plays into Auburn in 2023. Tape shows a tackle who wins the leverage battle inside the framework of the pocket and who almost never gets walked back. The flags are athletic — tight ankles, a build-up kick slide, and a tendency to overset against wide speed, which is why several evaluators projected him inside from the day he declared.
Boards had him as a fringe top-75 blocker with a Day 2 grade and a guard-or-right-tackle tag. A shoulder issue that surfaced at the Combine cost him testing and clouded the medical. Baltimore taking him at 91 was a value bet on floor, scheme fit and a résumé of 36 SEC starts, not on upside.
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Anchor in a phone booth
Sinks his hips and absorbs the initial jolt from bull rushers without surrendering the pocket, a trait that showed up weekly against SEC power.
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Grip and hand strength
Once he lands the inside hand he controls the rep; defenders rarely escape his fit late in the down, and he finishes through the whistle.
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Availability and volume
36 starts in three seasons and every offensive snap in 24 of 25 SEC games, an unusual durability résumé for a true-freshman starter.
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Displacement in the run game
Best on down blocks and short-area angles, where his mass and leg drive move defenders off the spot and open interior creases.
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Positional flexibility
Trained at right tackle but built and coached to slide inside to guard, giving a team two answers from one roster spot.
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Build-up kick slide
Short, choppy sets get him beaten to the corner by long-levered speed rushers who threaten his outside shoulder before he reaches depth.
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Tight lower half
Limited ankle flexion forces him to catch rather than mirror, and he can lose the edge when asked to redirect on second-move rushers.
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Range on wide zone
A builder of speed to the second level; his value narrows in outside-zone offenses that ask tackles to reach and cut off backside pursuit.
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Medical uncertainty
A shoulder problem that emerged during the pre-draft process cost him testing and required surgery, delaying his professional development.
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | LSU | 13 |
| 2023 | LSU | 12 |
| 2024 | LSU | 12 |
| Career | — | 38 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; games, starts and alignment are the meaningful counting data. Played every offensive snap in 24 of 25 SEC games across three seasons.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Right-side college tackle who settles in as a dependable, physical starting guard.
Powerful, durable interior anchor who turns grip strength and leverage into a decade of starts.
Toughness and finish carry him, but athletic limits cap him as a swing piece.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Baltimore drafted him as a swing piece and immediately lost the year to medicine. Jones had shoulder surgery shortly after the Combine, missed the entire offseason program and the first half of his rookie season, and did not return to practice until October 1. The Ravens activated him from the non-football roster on October 22, and Harbaugh was blunt that he was not ready — he had only just started taking pass-protection reps. He debuted in Week 13 against Cincinnati and finished the year with five appearances and zero starts, all in jumbo and reserve duty behind Ronnie Stanley and Roger Rosengarten.
The honest read is that nothing about the evaluation has been tested yet. He is listed as G/T in Baltimore, which confirms what the pre-draft consensus suspected: his long-term home may be inside, where the choppy set and tight ankles matter less and the anchor and grip strength matter more. A 36-start SEC résumé does not evaporate because of one lost season, but the developmental clock is now a year behind, and the 2026 offseason — his first healthy one as a professional — is the real evaluation window.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; games, starts and alignment are the meaningful counting data. Played every offensive snap in 24 of 25 SEC games across three seasons.