Tyrion
Ingram-Dawkins.
Tyrion
Ingram-Dawkins.
Georgia· 6'5"· 276 lb· 4.86s 40
"Ingram-Dawkins projects as a power-dominant interior rusher who, despite lacking elite bend or closing speed, consistently uses leverage and brute strength to collapse the pocket and disrupt passing lanes."Pre-draft read
Ingram-Dawkins is a length-and-leverage defender who plays the five-technique like a man trying to shove a house off its foundation. At 6-4 3/4 and 276 pounds with 33 1/2-inch arms, he wins the first two feet of the rep by extending, locking out and walking blockers backward rather than by slipping past them. Georgia used him as a base end in both odd and even fronts, and his cleanest tape comes on early downs, where he holds the edge of the box, keeps the outside arm free and forces the ball to bounce.
As a rusher he is a converter rather than a bender. The menu is a long-arm into a push-pull, or a bull rush that turns into a swipe the moment the tackle oversets. His 2024 jump -- eight tackles for loss and three sacks in 14 games -- came from playing lower and stringing counters together, not from new twitch. He is a power-first rusher whose job is to collapse the front wall of the pocket so somebody else finishes.
This defensive end's scheme fit centers on a balanced 4-3 defense that prioritizes both run-stopping integrity and effective pass rush from interior and edge alignments.
Year 1 rotational interior pass rusher with upside to be a long-term starting 4-3 strong-side defensive end.
A primary 3-4 outside linebacker role where he'd be asked to consistently drop into coverage or play in space.
His versatility and strength make him a valuable asset in a 4-3 system that utilizes interchangeable defensive lineman.
Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins Georgia Highlights
Base-end reps at Georgia showing the long-arm and edge-setting work.
Best Plays and Biggest Strengths | Film Room
Team film breakdown of his leverage and power-rush conversions.
Tyrion Ingram Dawkins
Career cutup across his four Georgia seasons.
Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins arrived in Athens as a four-star recruit and left as one of the more frustrating evaluations on Georgia's defensive line: a body-and-testing profile that scouts dream about, attached to a stat sheet that never caught up. Across four seasons he logged 37 games, 37 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss and four sacks, with a redshirt-adjacent 2021, a rotational 2022, a 2023 wrecked by foot surgery that limited him to eight appearances, and a genuine breakout in 2024.
The Combine confirmed what the frame suggested. He measured 6-4 3/4, 276 pounds, with 33 1/2-inch arms and a 6-10 3/4 wingspan, then ran 4.86 with a 1.69 ten-yard split, jumped 36 inches and 10-4, and posted a 7.28 three-cone with 23 bench reps. That is a starting-caliber athletic workup for a base end, and it is the reason a player with four career sacks was drafted at all rather than signed after the draft.
The evaluation therefore came down to whether a team believed the 2024 tape was a trend or a ceiling. Minnesota, a defense that asks its ends to hold gaps in a heavy front before it asks them to rush, took him at 139 and treated him as a two-year developmental piece. The pre-draft consensus was consistent: rare tools, delayed production, medical questions from the 2023 foot, and a projection that rests almost entirely on continued technical growth rather than on any single dominant trait.
- 01
Elite length
His 33 1/2-inch arms and 6-10 3/4 wingspan allow him to land first contact and control blockers.
- 02
Genuine play strength
He anchors against down blocks and can reset the line of scrimmage against single-team run blocks.
- 03
Rare movement profile
A 4.86 forty, 36-inch vertical, and 7.28 three-cone at 276 pounds show rare movement ability for a base end.
- 04
Improved counters
His improved counters in 2024, like chaining a long-arm into a push-pull, turned him into a legitimate pocket-collapsing rusher.
- 05
Georgia development
He was a four-year track player inside a Georgia program that develops professional athletes, reclaiming his rotation spot after 2023 foot surgery.
- 01
Limited production
His career totaled 37 tackles and four sacks in 37 games, with most disruption occurring in his final season.
- 02
No natural bend
He lacks natural bend around the arc, meaning he cannot flatten the corner and pressures must come through the blocker.
- 03
Medical file concerns
Foot surgery cost him most of 2023, limiting him to eight appearances that fall.
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Pad level drifts high
His pad level drifts high on second effort, and he lacks a reliable secondary move to disengage when losing leverage early.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 4.86sp50
- Vertical
- 36inp50
- Broad jump
- 124inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.28sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.34sp50
- Bench
- 23repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Georgia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | Georgia | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Georgia | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Georgia | 14 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Career | — | 37 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Rotational early-down end who holds a roster spot on run defense and situational power rushing.
Long, powerful base end who turns into a real starter once the hand work catches up to the frame.
Physical body that survives on effort and length without ever producing pressure at scale.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Rookie year in Minnesota: 14 games, one start, 12 tackles, 2.0 TFL, 1.0 sack, one pass defensed. Active all season with no practice-squad or injured-reserve stints.
The 2025 rookie season went about as well as a fifth-round developmental end can reasonably hope. Ingram-Dawkins dressed for 14 games, made his first NFL start, and finished with 12 combined tackles (six solo), 2.0 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack and a pass defensed. None of that is a headline, but the shape of the usage is what matters: Minnesota trusted him in base defense early, kept him active all season without a practice-squad detour, and gave him snaps in games that were still competitive. For a player whose college resume was four sacks in four years, being a functional rotational piece in year one is a step ahead of schedule.
What the tape needs next is the same thing it needed in Athens. He still generates his pressure by walking blockers back rather than by beating them cleanly, which caps how often he finishes and leaves him dependent on interior push arriving at the same moment. The path forward is narrow but real: he is a 276-pound end with a 7.28 three-cone who has already proven he can survive NFL run fits. If the hand work catches up to the length and the leverage stops drifting on second effort, he becomes a starting-caliber base end. If it does not, he is a useful early-down body who cycles through rosters on the strength of his measurements.