OLB Antwaun Powell-Ryland
Round 6, No. 209 overall
The Eagles selected outside linebacker Antwaun Powell-Ryland with their 10th and final pick. No. 209 overall, in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft.
Powell-Ryland has spent the last two seasons at Virginia Tech after transferring from Florida before the 2023 season.
In 2024, the 6-foot-2, 258-pounder started all 12 games he played, accumulating 43 total tackles and 16 sacks, which ranked third in FBS.
Powell-Ryland earned first-team All-ACC and Associated Press All-American third-team honors during his redshirt senior season with the Hokies.
The Portsmouth, Virginia, native was a four-star prospect out of Indian River High School, where he was selected to play in the Under Armour All-America Game.
Assistant GM Alec Halaby’s scouting report: “Antwuan can rush. He can rush the passer. There are people that just know how to rush the passer, who know how to have a feel for the junction, who have a spacial awareness, that understand timing – when to hit it upfield, when to dive inside to the B gap, when to go down the middle – and he has all that. He didn’t get that number of quarterback sacks (25.5 in his two seasons at Virginia Tech) by accident. Those sacks were earned. They came in a lot of different forms. They came in a lot of one-on-one situations, they came when he burnt an edge, when he bought an edge, he dove into the B gap, he rushed with power. Really good vision to the quarterback at the end of his rush, too. He can strike people and he has some ballast in the run game at 260-something pounds. What jumps off the tape when you look at him is that sack production and a guy who can see the quarterback and understands how to rush the passer and who knows how to beat tackles one-on-one, which is a very scarce thing in the league. We’re always looking for that.”