Wyatt
Milum.
Wyatt
Milum.
West Virginia· 6'7"· 313 lb· 5.27s 40
"A powerfully compact, decorated gap-scheme guard whose elite hand usage and grip strength compensate for short arms and an upright pass set that struggles against NFL-level twitch."Pre-draft read
Four-year West Virginia starter who played left tackle in a run-first, gap-and-duo offense but projects inside at guard. He wins with grip strength and torque: he covers up down blocks, locates the hip of the defender on doubles and feeds him over, and once his hands latch the rep is finished. Short, jarring strikes and a firm anchor stone bull rushers at the line of scrimmage.
The tape is a run blocker's tape. He climbs with good timing, pulls with enough burst to secure a backside lane, and sorts games and stunts without panic. Athletically he is solid rather than explosive and he plays upright, so defenders spiking across his face get him leaning. Below-average arm length is why the recover element never matched the power.
Gap and duo run game that lets him down block, pull short and finish in a phone booth rather than reach defenders in wide zone.
Year 1: swing interior backup and sixth lineman. Ceiling: multi-year starting guard in a downhill run scheme.
An outside-zone offense that asks him to reach a 3-tech playside and climb on the move, where his length and lateral redirect show up worst.
The shorter the distance he has to travel, the better he looks.
Wyatt Milum Is A MEAN BLOCKER! | 2025 NFL Draft Prospect Spotlight
Cutup of the grip strength and finish that defined his West Virginia tape.
Film Breakdown: Wyatt Milum is a MAULER | 2025 NFL Draft
All-22 breakdown of his down blocks, doubles and anchor against power.
Wyatt Milum Shows O-Line Confidence I Can Play Anywhere | Senior Bowl 1-on-1
Senior Bowl interview on his positional versatility across the line.
Milum is a leverage-and-grip lineman whose value is concentrated in a phone booth. He started 43 of 47 games at West Virginia, took 2,951 snaps, and finished as a Consensus All-American and Big 12 Offensive Lineman of the Year in 2024. Everything he does well is tied to strike timing, hand placement and the strength to hold what he grabs.
The production was real and it was sustained. He did not surrender a sack across his final two seasons, allowed a handful of total pressures in 2024, and anchored a rushing attack that ranked first among Power 4 schools in 2023 and ninth in 2024. He also never faced a steady diet of NFL-caliber speed off the edge in that scheme, and the two things evaluators kept circling — 32 1/8-inch arms and an upright pass set — both point the same direction. He was late to redirect against defenders spiking inside and got straight-legged against adept counters.
That is why the board treated him as a tackle who becomes a guard. He tested as an average athlete at the Combine, and a player with that résumé at tackle would have gone earlier. Jacksonville took him at 89 as a projected interior starter with tackle emergency value, which is a fair Day 2 price for a plug-and-play guard body with All-American habits.
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Grip strength
Once his hands land inside the frame, defenders stop moving; he clenches and sustains as well as any interior blocker in the class.
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Angle-drive run blocker
Covers up down blocks and locates the hip and ribs of the defender as the drive man on doubles to jolt and feed him over.
- 03
Anchor versus power
Quick, firm anchor with a wide base lets him absorb bull rushes near the line of scrimmage without giving ground to the pocket.
- 04
Mental processing
Sorts twists, games and line stunts without panic, passes off cleanly and rarely loses track of the second rusher in the exchange.
- 05
Production and durability
43 starts across 47 games and 2,951 snaps, with zero sacks allowed over his final two college seasons and almost no penalties.
- 01
Arm length
32 1/8-inch arms mean he has to let rushers into his frame before he can strike, which shrinks his margin for error on the edge.
- 02
Upright pass set
Plays tall on true dropback reps, so his balance wobbles against counters and he gets caught flat-footed or straight-legged.
- 03
Lateral redirect
Late to cut off defenders spiking or slanting across his face; he leans, loses the fit and lets penetration into the backfield.
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Athletic ceiling
Average testing profile and only solid range in space, which caps him as a positional blocker rather than a movement-scheme weapon.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.27sp50
- Vertical
- 30inp50
- Broad jump
- 108inp50
- Three-cone
- —s
- Shuttle
- 4.69sp50
- Bench
- —rep
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | West Virginia | 12 |
| 2022 | West Virginia | 12 |
| 2023 | West Virginia | 11 |
| 2024 | West Virginia | 12 |
| Career | — | 47 |
Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; totals reflect games, starts and snaps per West Virginia and PFF College.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Sturdy multi-spot interior starter who wins with leverage and technique instead of length.
Ceiling if the grip strength and processing turn into a decade of dependable interior starts.
Floor as a heavy-handed rotational guard and quality sixth lineman.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Jacksonville drafted him as a projected interior starter and got a redshirt instead. A training-camp injury cost him the first month of 2025, and he did not appear until Week 6. He finished with 10 games played, zero starts and 96 offensive snaps, spread across right guard (43), left guard (17), left tackle (2) and a jumbo tight end role (34). The reps were clean — one total pressure, no sacks, no penalties — but there were not enough of them to draw conclusions. Patrick Mekari held right guard, and Milum spent the year in the playbook rather than the lineup. By the 2026 offseason he was healthy and being pushed as a legitimate challenger for that starting right guard job.
In hindsight the pick still looks reasonable and unresolved at the same time. Nothing about the rookie year contradicted the evaluation: the power and the hand strength travelled, the tackle experiment stayed shelved, and the guard projection everyone made in April held. What Jacksonville has not yet learned is whether the upright pass set and short arms get exposed over 600 snaps against NFL interior rushers instead of 31. Year two is the real evaluation.
Data note: Offensive linemen do not accumulate box-score statistics; totals reflect games, starts and snaps per West Virginia and PFF College.