Zeek
Biggers.
Zeek
Biggers.
Georgia Tech· 6'6"· 321 lb· 5.14s 40
"A 6-6, 321-pound nose tackle with 34 7/8-inch arms and a 34.5-inch vertical, Biggers was the rare late-round body type teams cannot manufacture — and the rare one who was still learning how to use it."Pre-draft read
Biggers is a true nose tackle who lines up over the center or in a shaded 1-technique and asks the offense to move him. At 6-6 and 321 pounds with nearly 35-inch arms, he wins the extension battle before the contact battle: he lands first, locks out, and controls a blocker's frame long enough for the linebackers behind him to run clean.
The pass rush is a work in progress but not a blank page. He generates real push on the bull rush, and a 34.5-inch vertical at that weight hints at explosive traits most nose tackles lack. What separates him is the length in throwing lanes — seven career pass breakups at defensive tackle is not an accident, it is a player who knows when the rush is dead and gets his hands up.
A multiple front that lets a big-bodied nose tackle two-gap on early downs — a Miami-style defense, or any 3-4/4-3 hybrid that plays two-high behind heavy interior bodies.
Year 1: run-down nose tackle for 20-25 snaps a game. Ceiling: a starting two-down anchor who becomes a situational bull rusher on third down.
A one-gap penetrating front that asks him to shoot upfield and win with get-off, where his 1.74 ten-yard split and tall pad level make him a liability.
The frame is a three-down frame; the pass-rush plan is what decides whether he ever plays three downs.
Zeek Biggers | 2025 NFL Draft tape
Full draft reel: two-gap anchor work, bull rush push and hands in throwing lanes.
2024 regular season highlights
Senior year against ACC interior lines, where the leverage battles show up clearly.
Film breakdown: preseason Week 1 flashes
First NFL reps with Miami and the early signs of a functional pro bull rush.
Biggers was a four-star recruit out of West Rowan High in North Carolina who stayed four years at Georgia Tech and grew into one of the ACC's most physically imposing interior defenders. He played 47 games across four seasons, starting as a rotational freshman and finishing as the anchor of Brent Key's front.
The production never matched the frame, and that was the whole debate. He posted 104 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss and 2.0 sacks in four years — numbers that read as modest until you watch what happens around him. His best season came as a junior in 2023 (40 tackles, 4.0 TFL, a sack, three pass breakups, a fumble recovery, a blocked kick), and his senior year dipped in volume while the disruption held steady at 3.5 TFL and another sack. Teams charting him saw a two-gapper doing dirty work, not a stat-sheet rusher, and the East-West Shrine Bowl invitation confirmed the interest.
The Combine cemented the profile: 6-5 1/2, 321 pounds, 34 7/8-inch arms, a 7-1 wingspan, 22 bench reps and a 34.5-inch vertical. Boards had him as a late Day 3 developmental nose tackle. Miami, rebuilding the interior around Zach Sieler, spent 253 on the size.
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Rare length for the position
34 7/8-inch arms and a 7-1 wingspan let him land first, lock out, and control a center's frame before the block is ever set.
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Two-gap anchor
At 321 pounds with a wide base he absorbs double teams without giving ground, which is exactly why the linebackers behind him ran free.
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Explosive lower half
A 34.5-inch vertical and 9-5 broad jump at his weight are genuinely uncommon, and they show up in the initial jolt of his bull rush.
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Bats passes at the line
Seven career pass breakups from the interior is a real skill: he reads the quarterback's release point and gets his hands into the lane.
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Four-year durability
47 games with no missed-time flags, playing the most physically punishing snaps on the defense from his freshman year forward.
- 01
Pad level
At 6-6 he plays tall by default, and offensive linemen who get under him can walk him out of a gap when he loses the leverage exchange.
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Thin pass-rush plan
2.0 sacks in four years; he has a bull rush and little else, with no reliable counter when the initial push stalls.
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Modest disruption numbers
9.0 career TFL for a four-year interior starter is light, and it is fair to ask how much of his impact was actually his.
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Late-arriving motor
The effort is steady rather than relentless, and he does not consistently chase plays that leave his immediate gap.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.14sp50
- Vertical
- 34.5inp50
- Broad jump
- 113inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.91sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.75sp50
- Bench
- 22repp50
| Yr | Team | G | Tkl | Sk | Int | PD | FF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Georgia Tech | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Georgia Tech | 12 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | Georgia Tech | 13 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | Georgia Tech | 13 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Career | — | 47 | 104 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
Verified against the Sports-Reference CFB season table (55 solo / 49 assisted). Season sums match career totals exactly: 47 G, 104 tackles, 9.0 TFL, 2.0 sacks, 7 PD, 2 FR. Replaces an earlier CFBD pull that undercounted 2023 (37) and the career total (101).
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Late-round nose tackle who sticks on a roster as a two-down run defender and plays 250-400 snaps a year.
Tall, long, heavy interior body who turned two-gap anchoring into a decade-long rotational career with pass-rush flashes.
Same body type, same modest college disruption, and never carved out a stable rotational role.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
Miami signed him on May 9 and kept him on the 53 out of camp — no small thing for a pick that late. He was a healthy scratch through the early weeks while the attacking four-man front sorted itself out, then worked into the rotation and stayed there: nine games, 214 defensive snaps (37 percent of the team's snaps in the games he dressed), plus 50 on special teams. The line was better than the draft slot suggested — 20 tackles, 1.5 sacks, four quarterback hits and a tackle for loss, with the sack production arriving on interior pressure rather than cleanup.
In hindsight, pick 253 already looks like value. Seventh-round defensive tackles usually spend year one on a practice squad; Biggers made the roster, earned a real snap share, and produced pressure numbers a rotational veteran would accept. The ceiling is still the question — the pass-rush plan that was thin at Georgia Tech is thin in the NFL, and 1.5 sacks in 214 snaps is a small sample. But the floor moved: he is a functional NFL nose tackle on a rookie deal, which is more than the pick cost.
Data note: Verified against the Sports-Reference CFB season table (55 solo / 49 assisted). Season sums match career totals exactly: 47 G, 104 tackles, 9.0 TFL, 2.0 sacks, 7 PD, 2 FR. Replaces an earlier CFBD pull that undercounted 2023 (37) and the career total (101).