Pat
Coogan.
Pat
Coogan.
Indiana· 6'5"· 311 lb· 5.19s 40
R6 · #194 · Tennessee Titans"A five-year interior starter who wins with declaration and timing instead of pop — the rare Day 3 center whose calls, stunt passes and double-team footwork are already professional, with short arms and heavy feet as the price of admission."Pre-draft read
This player operates as a full-time center in gap- and duo-based blocking schemes. His primary role involves pre-snap communication, where he identifies defensive fronts, adjusts protection calls against late rotations, and manages pass-offs on twists and delayed blitzes. He ensures his adjacent linemen are not left isolated.
As a run blocker, he excels on double teams by sinking his hips, maintaining a wide base, and delivering a vertical push before climbing to the second level. His lower-body strength allows him to hold ground against larger nose tackles. In pass protection, he anchors on a flat plane, absorbing bull rushes by dropping his weight rather than resetting his feet, and consistently plays through the whistle with a finisher's mentality.
This prospect thrives in a gap/duo power run game where his primary responsibility is to anchor the interior line, communicate protections, and execute power blocks, leveraging his strength to create vertical push.
Immediate backup center who can step in and start by Year 2, anchoring a power running game and making critical pre-snap calls.
Coogan's below-average athleticism and limited knee bend make him a poor fit for a wide zone blocking scheme that relies on agile, quick-footed linemen to reach and cut off defenders in space.
Coogan's elite pre-snap processing and double-team proficiency make him a valuable asset in a power run scheme despite his athletic limitations.
Pat Coogan Highlights and Analysis
Cut-up of Coogan's 2025 Indiana tape with breakdown of his double-team work and stunt pickups.
Pat Coogan | Center | Indiana — Voch Lombardi & Bryan Broaddus draft profile
Line-coach and former NFL scout breakdown of his hand timing, anchor mechanics and pass-off responsibilities.
Pat Coogan 6-5 315 Center Indiana
Full-game clips from Indiana's 2025 title season, including the Rose Bowl MVP performance against Alabama.
This prospect projects as a processing-first center, a plug-and-play option for a gap-scheme offense. Evaluators identified him as a backup center with a realistic path to a starting role in a downhill run scheme, valuing his exceptional football IQ and pre-snap command. His 31 1/8" arm length was a crucial factor in his draft projection, limiting his reach against longer interior rushers.
His collegiate journey involved starting 13 games for Notre Dame in 2023, then regaining his starting role mid-2024 to anchor a playoff run. He then transferred to Indiana, where he started all 16 games of their 2025 national championship season, leading an offensive line that finished ninth nationally in line yards. Notably, he was named offensive MVP of the Rose Bowl against Alabama.
Concerns about his arm length, limited knee bend impacting pad level, and a lack of recovery athleticism when hand placement was off, positioned him in the fifth-to-seventh round range. Despite these flags, his 46 career games with clean pass-protection charting and the Rose Bowl performance cemented his draft stock, and he was ultimately drafted in the sixth round.
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Pre-snap processing
Coogan identifies defensive fronts, adjusts protection calls against late rotations, and manages pass-offs on twists and delayed blitzes.
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Double team run blocking
He excels on double teams by sinking his hips, maintaining a wide base, and delivering a vertical push before climbing to the second level.
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Pass protection anchor
He anchors on a flat plane, absorbing bull rushes by dropping his weight rather than resetting his feet.
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Sustained effort
Consistently plays through the whistle with a finisher's mentality in both run blocking and pass protection scenarios.
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Exceptional football IQ
Evaluators value his exceptional football IQ and pre-snap command, identifying him as a processing-first center.
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Arm length limitation
His 31 1/8" arm length was a crucial factor in his draft projection, limiting his reach against longer interior rushers.
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Pad level concerns
Limited knee bend impacts his pad level, especially during pass sets, costing depth against speed-to-power rushers.
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Recovery athleticism
A lack of recovery athleticism is evident when hand placement is off, leading to lunging or overextending without recovery.
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Foot speed
His foot speed does not travel against quick interior rushers, often beaten to landmarks on wide alignment stunts.
— — — positional median (p50)
- 40 yd
- 5.19sp50
- Vertical
- 29inp50
- Broad jump
- 107inp50
- Three-cone
- 7.82sp50
- Shuttle
- 4.93sp50
- Bench
- 22repp50
| Yr | Team | G |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Notre Dame | 0 |
| 2022 | Notre Dame | 1 |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 13 |
| 2024 | Notre Dame | 16 |
| 2025 | Indiana | 16 |
| Career | — | 46 |
Games and starts per Wikipedia/school releases; pass-protection charting per PFF via Steelers Depot. Offensive linemen have no counting statistics, so games, starts and protection charting are the production record.
A dash means the figure is not published by a source we trust — never a zero we invented.
Honors
- CFP national champion with Indiana (2025 season)
- Rose Bowl offensive MVP vs. Alabama (Jan. 1, 2026) — first lineman honored since 1944
- Second-team All-Big Ten (2025)
- Started for two Joe Moore Award semifinalist offensive lines (2023 Notre Dame, 2025 Indiana)
- Started every game of Notre Dame's run to the 2025 CFP National Championship Game
A tough, scheme-versatile interior backup who becomes a multi-year starter when the run game is downhill and the protection scheme keeps help nearby.
Same processing-first profile with average length — Biadasz turned pre-snap mastery and anchor strength into a Pro Bowl season, which is the realistic ceiling here.
If the length and foot speed get exposed against NFL interior rushers, he settles into an emergency-center roster spot valued mostly for the meeting room.
Everything above is the pre-draft evaluation. This section is what actually happened — updated year over year.
THE PLAYER Coogan is what the position looks like when the brain is the best athletic trait. He is a fifth-year center who spent four seasons at Notre Dame and one at Indiana, and in both places he was handed the front-identification job immediately because coaches trusted what he saw before the snap more than what anyone else could do after it. He sorts eye candy, sets the protection, resets it when a safety walks down late, and passes off twists without ever leaving a guard on an island. Physically he is a wide-based anchor rather than a displacer: he sinks his hips, holds his ground against nose tackles who outweigh him, and finishes through the whistle. On double teams he is genuinely good — he generates a vertical push before climbing, which is why gap and duo teams liked him more than zone teams did.
THE FLAGS Everything that pushed him to the sixth round is physical. His arms are 31 1/8", which means long interior rushers get inside his frame first and he cannot re-establish leverage once beaten. His knee bend is limited, so his pad level rides high and the wide base he uses to compensate costs him mobility. He throws hands late against sudden counters and lunges when he is behind, and there is no recovery burst to fix a missed rep. In space he is unreliable — his second-level target accuracy wanders and he can be pulled off balance on the move. He also carries a 2022 meniscus surgery and a 2024 demotion on the résumé, though he answered both.
NFL FIT He landed with a franchise at 194 as a developmental pivot behind an established interior. The projection is straightforward: a backup center and emergency guard in year one who earns his roster spot on the strength of the call-making, then competes for the job in a downhill, gap-heavy run scheme where his double-team work and anchor matter more than range. He is a bad fit for a wide-zone offense asking the center to reach a shaded nose and climb on the move. In the right structure — quick game, defined protections, help available inside — the floor is a long-tenured swing interior and the ceiling is a multi-year starter whose value shows up in the plays that never happen.
Data note: Games and starts per Wikipedia/school releases; pass-protection charting per PFF via Steelers Depot. Offensive linemen have no counting statistics, so games, starts and protection charting are the production record.