Princely
Umanmielen.
Princely
Umanmielen.
Ole Miss· 6'4"· 244 lb· 4.72s 40
"A pure pass-rushing projection with an elite first step and bend that translated to 10.5 sacks in his final collegiate season, he'll need to develop play strength to be more than a situational player."Pre-draft read
Umanmielen is a wide-alignment speed rusher who wins before contact. He lines up almost exclusively outside the tackle, times the snap with a plus get-off, and attacks the outside shoulder immediately to force an overset. His hand work on the arc is real — a cross-chop and rip combination that lets him clear the edge without bleeding speed into contact.
The counter game is the second layer: when tackles jump the speed rush he spins back inside or converts to a long-arm. Against the run he plays tall and gets displaced by down blocks, closer to a chase defender than an edge setter. The signature is bend — he corners at an angle few players his length can hold, and that trait alone carried a starting-caliber pass-rush projection.
Attacking four-man front with a wide-nine or 4i-to-9 rush alignment; fits a defense that lets edges pin their ears back on obvious passing downs.
Year 1: designated third-down rusher in a four-man rotation, 300-400 snaps, protected from short-yardage run downs. Ceiling: full-time starting edge with double-digit sacks once he adds functional strength at the point of attack.
Two-gap 3-4 defense that asks the end to hold the C-gap against down blocks, or a heavy-personnel front where he is left on the field for goal-line and short-yardage run defense.
Best on a defense with an interior rusher who collapses the pocket, since his path to the quarterback is around the arc rather than through it.
Princely Umanmielen Full College Football Highlights | Ole Miss
Full-career highlight reel showing the get-off, arc bend and counter spin.
Princely Umanmielen Film Breakdown (Ole Miss Edge)
All-22 breakdown of his hand plan and pass-rush wins in the 2024 season.
NFL Draft: Princely Umanmielen Highlights
Pre-draft cutup of his SEC pass-rush production and Senior Bowl reps.
A four-year Florida player who transferred to Ole Miss for his final season, Umanmielen entered the 2025 cycle as one of the class's cleanest pure pass-rush projections. Everything about the profile pointed the same direction: rush the passer on early downs, rush the passer on third down, and let someone else set the edge in short yardage.
The production curve backed it up. He was a rotational piece through 2021, broke through with 10 TFL and 4.5 sacks in 2022, then posted 7.0 sacks as a Florida senior before the move to Oxford produced the best tape of his career — 14 TFL and 10.5 sacks in 12 games in a defense emphasizing aggressive playmaking, plus a Senior Bowl week where he beat tackles cleanly in one-on-ones. The flags were the same ones that followed him from Gainesville: play strength at the point of attack, inconsistent leverage, and a run-defense profile that made him a situational player early.
Boards had him in the late-first to second-round range on rush traits, with the drop tied to the frame and the run fit rather than the pass-rush tape. Carolina, badly short of edge production, took him at 77 as the second edge of their draft — a value pick that bet the pass rush would translate before the run defense caught up.
- 01
Get-off
times the snap as well as any edge in the class and consistently forces tackles into a compromised set before their second kick.
- 02
Bend and corner
turns the arc at a real angle for his height, flattening to the quarterback instead of running himself past the pocket.
- 03
Hand plan
pairs the speed rush with a cross-chop and rip that separates him from the tackle's punch rather than absorbing it.
- 04
Counter awareness
reads the overset and spins back inside or converts to a long-arm, so the same rush does not get taken away twice.
- 05
Final-season production
14 TFL and 10.5 sacks in 12 SEC games at Ole Miss, the best year of a five-year career and against the toughest slate.
- 01
Play strength
at 244 pounds he gets moved by down blocks and duo, and tackles who land first hands can stall the rush outright.
- 02
Pad level
plays tall out of his stance in the run game, losing the leverage battle before his hands ever get involved.
- 03
Edge setting
more chase-and-pursue than anchor on the boundary, which limits him on early downs in heavy personnel.
- 04
Late bloomer
the breakout came in year five after three quiet seasons, raising questions about how much growth is left.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.72sp50
- Vertical
- 38inp50
- Broad jump
- 126inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.33sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.46sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Florida | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Florida | 13 | 17 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Florida | 13 | 39 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Florida | 12 | 39 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Ole Miss | 12 | 37 | 10.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 57 | 135 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Productive sub-package rusher whose run-down limits kept him in a rotation.
Same wide-alignment speed-to-power arc; Sweat added the strength and became a full-time starter.
Traits rusher who never converted wins into consistent sack production.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Carolina used him exactly as the profile suggested. He was a designated rusher from day one of the 2025 season, playing all 16 games he was active for without a single start and rotating in behind the veterans on early downs. The snaps were real but the finishes were not: 24 tackles, 1.5 sacks, and a pressure rate that flashed in stretches without producing a signature game. He was on the field for third downs and obvious passing situations, off it in short yardage, which is what a 244-pound rookie edge with run-defense questions should expect.
In hindsight the pick still reads reasonable, but the transition was slower than the college tape implied. NFL tackles do not overset the way SEC tackles did, and without the get-off advantage he had to win with a hand plan that is still developing. The strength question that dropped him to the third round is the one that showed up first. One rookie year is not a verdict — the traits that made him a top-50 name on rush tape are intact — but he needs an offseason of functional strength before the sack total matches the win rate.