Ozzy
Trapilo.
Ozzy
Trapilo.
Boston College· 6'8"· 316 lb· 5.21s 40
"Trapilo is a fundamentally sound, powerfully built tackle with a pro pedigree, whose ability to consistently cover his modest athletic traits with advanced hand usage and anchor will determine his ceiling."Pre-draft read
A three-year starter with rare height at 6-foot-8 and 316 pounds, Trapilo opened as a left tackle as a redshirt sophomore before spending his final two seasons at right tackle in a run-heavy Boston College offense. His calling card is hand work: a low carriage, independent strikes and a responsive catch hand that stalls inside counters, played behind a flat back with rushers at his fingertips.
He anchors immediately against power, building his base at the spot rather than absorbing ground, and in the run game he covers up targets on angle drives with real strain to expand the gap. Lower-half stiffness shows on redirects and backside climbs, where he can be crossed. The signature is a tall frame that still plays balanced and patient.
Zone-heavy multiple run scheme with play-action, where his anchor and hand technique matter more than the ability to reach a defender in space.
Year 1: swing tackle and injury insurance who wins the job by midseason. Ceiling: durable, average-to-good starting tackle on either side who never becomes the reason a protection breaks.
A wide-zone offense asking tackles to reach-block 3-techniques and cut off backside pursuit on the move — his redirect and space blocking would be exposed every run down.
The frame and strength make a kick inside to guard a real fallback if the knee costs him range.
Ozzy Trapilo College Football Highlights | Boston College Right Tackle
Boston College cut-up showing the angle-drive power and hand placement at right tackle.
Boston College OL Ozzy Trapilo | 2025 NFL Draft Tape
Draft-cycle tape focused on pass sets, the anchor against power and the redirect limits.
HIGHLIGHTS: Ozzy Trapilo | Chicago Bears
Rookie-year Bears reel from the late-season stretch at left tackle.
Trapilo is a technician in a giant's body. He is the son of the late Steve Trapilo, a former Saints guard, and it shows in how he handles the small parts of the job: spacing, depth, timing on combinations, and knowing when to pass off a looper. He is not a mover in space, but he is never late and rarely out of position.
Boston College asked him to play in a 64-36 run-pass split, and he answered with 36 starts across 44 games, first-team All-ACC honors and a captaincy as a senior. The flags were physical rather than mental: mediocre lateral redirect, a thin margin for error once his hips open, and a build that can get high against leverage rushers. Teams that liked him bet on the hands and the anchor covering the feet.
The board had him as a clean Day 2 tackle with guard insurance, somewhere in the 45-70 range. Chicago, rebuilding the line around a modern, diverse offensive scheme, took him at 56 with no promise of snaps behind an incumbent left tackle. It was a bet on floor and positional value rather than a plug-and-play answer.
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Anchor against power
Sets his base at the spot instead of drifting, and the bull rush dies quickly because his weight arrives before the rusher's does.
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Independent hand use
Works with a low carriage, baits rushers into committing, then strikes with a circle punch that resets the rep on his terms.
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Play strength on angle drives
Covers up his target in the run game and strains through contact to widen the gap rather than settling for a stalemate.
- 04
Spatial awareness
Understands depth, timing and combination work, closing doors on twists and passing off loopers without needing a call from inside.
- 05
Positional flexibility
Started at both left and right tackle in college and carries the frame and strength to kick inside to guard if needed.
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Lateral redirect
Lower-half stiffness shows when he has to change direction late, and adept counter rushers can find the edge before he resets.
- 02
Backside climbs
Gets his face crossed on climbs to second-level linebackers and against sudden post-snap gap exchanges or slants.
- 03
Pad level
At 6-foot-8 he plays tall against leverage rushers, and once his hips and shoulders open the recovery window is narrow.
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Space blocking
Solid burst on pulls and screens, but he is not a fluid mover in the open field and struggles to fit up moving targets.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.21sp50
- Vertical
- —in
- Broad jump
- 106inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.71sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.70sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Boston College | 0 |
| 2021 | Boston College | 10 |
| 2022 | Boston College | 10 |
| 2023 | Boston College | 12 |
| 2024 | Boston College | 12 |
| Career | — | 44 |
Offensive linemen do not accrue box-score statistics; games and starts shown. Bears materials credit 44 games and 36 starts across five seasons (2020-24).
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Very tall, strong-handed tackle whose value is reliability and swing versatility more than upside.
Oversized, technically sound tackle who anchors and lasts a decade without ever testing well.
Strong-handed starter whose edge-speed and redirect issues cap him as a maintenance-level tackle.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Rookie year in Chicago: 14 games, six starts, 491 snaps and a 69.9 PFF grade before a patellar tendon rupture in the Wild Card Round.
Chicago did not hand him anything. Trapilo lost the summer competition to incumbent Braxton Jones, debuted on special teams in Week 1 and did not take an offensive snap until Week 4. The full-time left tackle job came in Week 12 against Pittsburgh, and he held it the rest of the way: 14 games, six starts, 491 offensive snaps, 15 pressures and two sacks allowed, with a 69.9 PFF grade that ranked 37th among 89 qualified tackles. From the takeover through the playoffs he was one of the best-graded rookie tackles in football. Then he ruptured his patellar tendon in the Wild Card win over Green Bay, ending a season that had finally turned.
In hindsight the pick reads better than it did in April. Chicago drafted the least exciting tackle in the second-round group and got the most stable one, and the pass protection was the surprise rather than the run blocking scouts expected. The knee is the whole question now: a patellar rupture is a long road for a 6-foot-8 lineman, and the 2026 season will decide whether the late-2025 stretch was the floor or the ceiling.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accrue box-score statistics; games and starts shown. Bears materials credit 44 games and 36 starts across five seasons (2020-24).