Ty
Robinson.
Ty
Robinson.
Nebraska· 6'5"· 288 lb· 4.83s 40
"Robinson is a block-absorbing defensive tackle with the raw power and anchor to clog up the interior, but his limited pass rush moves and explosiveness could relegate him to a two-down role."Pre-draft read
Robinson is a long, high-effort interior lineman who plays with his hair on fire from the first snap to the last. At 6-5 and 288 pounds he is built like a big base end, and Nebraska moved him accordingly — 3-technique on early downs, 4i and even 5-technique in odd fronts. He wins with a quick get-off, a heavy long-arm and motor pursuit that shows up 15 yards downfield.
The limitation is mass. At 288 pounds with 32¼-inch arms he can get displaced by good double teams and washed out of gaps against downhill run games. His pass rush improved late — six sacks and 12.5 TFL as a senior — but it is still built on effort and a bull rush more than a refined hand plan.
The Eagles run a one-gap 4-3 penetrating front, emphasizing disruption and upfield pressure from their defensive tackles.
Year 1 rotational interior pass rusher offering inside-out pressure and developing into a starting 3-technique DT.
A system that demands two-gapping interior linemen would nullify his athletic strengths and limit his impact.
Robinson's quick first step and penetration skills align perfectly with the Eagles' attacking defensive philosophy.
Ty Robinson College Football Highlights💥 | Nebraska Defensive Tackle
Game film cut-up of Ty Robinson's Nebraska tape.
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Game film cut-up of Ty Robinson's Nebraska tape.
NFL DRAFT HIGHLIGHTS: DL Ty Robinson | Nebraska Football
Game film cut-up of Ty Robinson's Nebraska tape.
Robinson is the definition of a program player who finally broke out at the right time. Five seasons at Nebraska, 57 games, 135 tackles, 26.5 tackles for loss, 11 sacks and 12 pass breakups, and more than half of the disruption came in the final year.
The progression was gradual and honest. Seventeen tackles as a freshman in the shortened 2020 season, then three straight years in the 25-to-29 tackle range with two-and-four TFL totals that read like a rotational lineman. Then 2024 arrived: 13 games, 37 tackles, 12.5 TFL and six sacks as the most consistent player on a Nebraska defense that carried the roster. He followed it with a Senior Bowl week that confirmed the frame and the motor against better competition.
The testing was the tiebreaker. Twenty-eight bench reps, a 33.5-inch vertical, a 9-11 broad and a 4.83 forty at 288 pounds — a strong athletic profile for an interior player, with the caveat that 288 is light for the position and 32¼-inch arms are short for the length teams want at 6-5. Boards had him as a fourth-round rotational disruptor with scheme-specific value, and Philadelphia — a front that rotates interior bodies harder than anyone — took him at 111.
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Motor
Chases plays from the backside and finishes 15 yards downfield; the effort is the most consistent trait on the tape.
- 02
Get-off
Quick first step off the ball that beats guards to a shoulder and creates penetration before the block sets.
- 03
Alignment versatility
Played 3-tech, 4i and 5-tech at Nebraska, which lets a defensive front move him without changing calls.
- 04
Senior-year disruption
12.5 TFL and six sacks in 2024, the production spike teams look for from a fifth-year lineman.
- 05
Functional strength
Twenty-eight bench reps and a long-arm that stalls guards and collapses the pocket from the interior.
- 01
Play weight
288 pounds is light for interior work; good double teams displace him and wash him out of run fits.
- 02
Arm length
32¼-inch arms on a 6-5 frame; NFL guards get inside his chest and control the rep before he extends.
- 03
Hand plan
Rushes on effort and power more than technique, with few counters when the initial move is neutralized.
- 04
Age and runway
A fifth-year senior close to his physical ceiling, so most of the projection is scheme fit rather than growth.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.83sp50
- Vertical
- 33.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 119inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.58sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.50sp50
- Bench
- 28repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Nebraska | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Nebraska | 12 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | Nebraska | 12 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | Nebraska | 12 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 2024 | Nebraska | 13 | 37 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Career | — | 57 | 135 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Rotational interior body who fills 300 snaps a year and does the dirty work without a stat line.
Long, high-motor tweener who found a full-time role by winning with effort and alignment flexibility.
Fifth-year interior lineman who never adds the weight or the hand plan and cycles off rosters.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Year one in Philadelphia was a redshirt in everything but name. Robinson appeared in 11 games as a rookie and finished with five combined tackles — one solo, four assists — with no sacks, on a defensive line rotation deep enough that a fourth-round pick has to earn every snap. He was active and available, but the Eagles never asked him to be more than a spot rotational body on early downs.
In hindsight that is the exact outcome the grade implied, not a disappointment. Nothing about the evaluation suggested a rookie-year contributor: the frame needed weight, the hand plan needed reps, and he landed on the one defensive line where those things get developed rather than exposed. The risk is the other side of the same coin — a fifth-year senior who spends year one at five tackles is running out of runway in a hurry. What he does with a full offseason in that building, and whether he can carry 295 pounds, decides whether the motor ever gets a real audition.