Warren
Brinson.
Warren
Brinson.
Georgia· 6'5"· 315 lb· 5.09s 40
"A long-levered interior lineman with a pro body and a quick first step, Brinson's NFL value hinges on whether he can develop a consistent anchor and hand timing to match his burst."Pre-draft read
Brinson is a big-framed interior lineman who spent five years inside Georgia's rotation, aligning anywhere from a 0-technique nose to a 5-tech, with occasional snaps out at a 7-tech on obvious passing downs. His best trait is snap quickness for 315 pounds: he beats the count, gets his hands inside on first contact and works half-man leverage instead of absorbing the block square.
The secondary trait is a real pass-rush plan. Stab-and-bull, club/swim, swipe/rip, used in sequence rather than one move on repeat. Against the run he is a squeeze-and-spill piece who can chase to the sideline; as a rusher he creates pressure far more often than he finishes it. The signature is effort at a body type that usually plays heavy.
Attacking one-gap four-man front that lets him fire off the ball into a gap rather than read-and-react against down blocks.
Year 1: rotational interior on early downs and in the NASCAR package. Ceiling: 550-snap starting 3-tech in an aggressive front.
Two-gap 3-4 that asks him to hold the point against combo blocks for 40 snaps a game — the double-team anchor is the exact thing he never proved.
The bet is on quickness and length being used forward, not on him being asked to eat blocks.
Warren Brinson is the next Georgia defensive lineman ready to make an impact in the NFL
Georgia-era feature on his role inside the Bulldogs rotation.
Warren Brinson Highlights - Welcome to the Green Bay Packers
Draft-day highlight reel showing the snap quickness and rush moves.
Packers Rookie Warren Brinson Is An Old School Defender | Film Review
Film review of his rookie-year Packers snaps.
Brinson is the Georgia defensive lineman NFL teams have been buying for a decade: five years in the program, two national championship rings, eight career starts, and a body that already looks like a pro's. At 6-foot-5 and 315 pounds with 33 1/2-inch arms and 10 3/8-inch hands, he brought positional flexibility from nose to five-technique and enough snap quickness to win the first step against single blocks.
The problem was always the production line. Fifty-eight games produced 71 tackles, 14 tackles for loss and six sacks — a rotational résumé, because that is what he was behind a wall of first-round teammates. His 2024 tape was the best of it: a career-high six TFLs and a 2.5-TFL SEC Championship afternoon against Texas, with hurry counts that told a friendlier story than the box score. The flags were core strength against doubles, hand timing when the first move failed, and slow urgency to shed once a lineman latched.
Boards had him as a late Day 3 developmental body, roughly the 180-to-220 range, and the Packers took him at 198 as exactly that: a big, coached-up rotational interior for a front that leans on depth. It was a value pick, not a projection — the bet is on the frame, the tools and five years of Kirby Smart technique, not on anything he had already proven.
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Frame and length
6-foot-5, 315 pounds with 33 1/2-inch arms and 10 3/8-inch hands, so he wins the initial fit and can catch and reset a blocker instead of getting swallowed.
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Snap quickness
beats the count for a man his size and gets penetration on the first step, which is what let him disrupt gaps in Georgia's one-gap looks.
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Real rush plan
stab-and-bull, club/swim and swipe/rip appear on tape in sequence, and he chains them rather than repeating one move all afternoon.
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Alignment versatility
took snaps at 0, 3, 4i and 5-tech, and Georgia trusted him in both one-gap penetration and two-gap stack-and-shed roles.
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Motor and pursuit
chases plays outside his gap and to the sideline, and his hustle production shows up in hurry counts more than in tackles.
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Core strength
gets displaced by double teams and can lose his base when a lineman gets under his pads, which caps him as a full-time run anchor.
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Hand timing
his placement is fine but late, and when the first move is stoned he has no reliable counter to reset the rep.
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Shed urgency
takes a beat too long to disengage once a blocker latches, so he arrives at the ball carrier a step after the play is decided.
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Thin production
71 tackles and six sacks over five years and 58 games is a rotational résumé, and the flashes never turned into a starter's body of work.
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- 40 yd
- 5.09sp50
- Vertical
- 31inp50
- Broad jump
- 115inp50
- Three-cone
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| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Georgia | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Georgia | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Georgia | 15 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Georgia | 13 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | Georgia | 12 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | — | 58 | 71 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Season splits verified on cfbstats.com (Georgia, 2020-2024); seasons sum exactly to the 71-tackle, 14.0-TFL, 6.0-sack career line published by Georgia and the Packers. Per-season fumble recoveries are not broken out by the source, so only the single career FR is recorded. Georgia lists 59 career games including a bowl not itemized by cfbstats.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Big-bodied interior rotation player with flashes of penetration who never took over a starting job outright.
Long, versatile rotational lineman who carved out a decade as a valued depth piece across multiple fronts.
Late-round interior body who bounced between rosters when the anchor never caught up to the frame.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Green Bay kept him and used him the way the pick implied. Brinson made the roster out of camp and dressed for 11 games as a rookie in 2025, drawing one start and finishing with 13 tackles and half a sack behind Devonte Wyatt and Karl Brooks in the interior rotation. His snaps clustered late in the year, when the Packers were leaning on depth through a 9-7-1 finish, and he was mostly a first- and second-down body: two-tackle games against Denver and Chicago in December, plus steady special teams work. Nothing about the usage said future starter yet, but nothing said cut candidate either.
Judging a sixth-round interior lineman after one year is mostly a matter of asking whether the reason he was drafted still holds. It does. He was taken because the frame, the length and the first step are things you cannot coach, and because Georgia had already handled the technique. What he still has not shown is the anchor against doubles that separates a rotational body from a three-down player, and that is a strength-room question more than a talent one. Fair verdict at this stage: on schedule, unresolved, and worth another two years before anyone calls it.
Data note: Season splits verified on cfbstats.com (Georgia, 2020-2024); seasons sum exactly to the 71-tackle, 14.0-TFL, 6.0-sack career line published by Georgia and the Packers. Per-season fumble recoveries are not broken out by the source, so only the single career FR is recorded. Georgia lists 59 career games including a bowl not itemized by cfbstats.