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#6 2021 NFL Draft Prospect: Teven Jenkins (Oklahoma State)
6 ’6”, 315 pounds; RS SR
Just outside the top 1000 overall recruits, Jenkins redshirted his first year in Stillwater. The following season, he played in 12 games and started three of them, before earning the starting gig at right tackle in 2019, where he earned honorable mention All-Big 12 accolades. And then last year he improved that to first-team all-conference as a dominant player at that spot for the Cowboys.
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Jenkins is one of the intimidating players in this entire draft. He can create a lot of vertical push in the run game, especially when he gets a little bit of help on combos, to square up the defender and just drive him off the ball, but he can also set up teammates with a good bump on the down-lineman, before he works up to the backer.
He is strong like a bear, but also has great short-area agility and hip mobility, to transition on combo-blocks among other things. With how many odd fronts and head-up D-ends he faced in the Big 12 you didn’t see a ton of it, but when Jenkins had those guys shaded to the outside, he could really blow that B-gap wide open on the front-side of zone runs, getting underneath the inside arm pit and getting them moving towards the sideline.
Jenkins has that quality of making guys land on the turf routinely in those situations, as an awesome finisher. Jenkins does a nice job of sealing four- or five-techniques on the backside of run plays, bringing his hips all the way around. He stays very balanced and patient working up to the second level and while he may not fly around the field, he is very effective getting in front of people and forcing them to find a different path in the screen game.
In the pass game, that back-leg kicks back with violence and Jenkins has clutches, to shut down pass-rushers, plus he is looking to finish on top of those guys. He uses this slick maneuver, where he knocks down the hands of the edge rusher, which gets them off balance and then again underneath him in the end.
And while he doesn’t have very long arms, he displays excellent individual hand usage, like swatting down the hands of rushers trying to use the icepick and keeps that chest free. Jenkins has just absurd power to swallow bull-rushes and set the anchor, to where he brings the rusher to a complete stop.
And because of how massive he is combined with the depth he gets on that first step, you can’t really shorten the arc much against him. Jenkins is plenty loose enough to adjust on twists to his side and he does a nice job of setting up draw plays with a couple of kicks and then pushing his man back towards the offensive end-zone.
In the Texas game last season, that ability to torque pads and throw guys to the turf really was on display against a potential first-round edge rusher himself in Joseph Ossai, who he pancaked and drove out of the screen on several occasions. Overall, Jenkins hasn’t been charted with allowing any sacks and only two QB hits by PFF over the last two seasons combined (even though Ossai actually got on the last play against him, when the QB scrambled the other way.
On the flipside, Jenkins is a little too lethargic coming out of stance a lot of times in the run game and we rarely seen him use actual lead-steps, to create instant movement, more so squaring up defenders. And while he is a like a wall to get around when he gets into open space, he struggles to actually engage with more agile defenders and has to learn to throttle down in those situations.
As a pass-protector, he gets caught oversetting to the outside on quite a few occasions or completely stopping his feet against up-and-under maneuvers. Plus, his second and first steps/kicks are not nearly as impressive, heavily relying on short-sets in that area. Oh, and while this may not be such a big thing, his cut-blocks are pretty gross to watch. So I wouldn’t ask him to execute those in some kind of quick game stuff any time soon.
If you are looking for a hulking right tackle, who will impose his will on defenders, this is your guy. I don’t think Jenkins has the impressive agility and foot quickness of the guys in front of him and he is often outmatched in arm length compared to his man on the edge, but he makes up for it with hand-usage and you have to go a pretty long way, trying to actually get around him massive frame. I think he has Pro Bowl potential at tackle or guard.
