{"id":143557,"date":"2025-06-20T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143557\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:24:08","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-summer-scouting-report-austin-barber-lt-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/143557\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft Summer Scouting Report: Austin Barber, LT, Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer is here, and it is everyone\u2019s favorite time of the year, scouting time. Every year, we do Summer Scouting to preview college football for Bucs<\/a> fans, but also give them an idea of names to follow and watch in the fall as needs pop up for Tampa Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Are we going to write about quarterbacks? You know it, but why? Because other NFL teams will draft them, just as they will draft every other position. It all matters whether these players end up on the Bucs, the Bears<\/a>, or the Steelers<\/a>. We write these so Bucs fans can be the most informed fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So if you are still with us, enjoy our latest Summer Scouting report as we prepare you for the Fall.<\/p>\n

Player Information<\/p>\n

Player: Austin Barber<\/p>\n

School: Florida\u00a0<\/p>\n

Height\/Weight: 6-6\/314 lbs.<\/p>\n

Player Background<\/p>\n

– 4-Star Recruit<\/p>\n

– Basketball in High School<\/p>\n

– Freshman All-American First-Team in 2022<\/p>\n

Career Stats Heading into the 2025 Season<\/p>\n

– 37 Career Games<\/p>\n

– 26 Career Starts<\/p>\n

Notable PFF Numbers Heading into the 2025 Season\u00a0<\/p>\n

– 69.1 PFF Run Blocking Grade<\/p>\n

– 71.7 PFF Pass Blocking Grade<\/p>\n

– 906 Run Blocking Snaps<\/p>\n

– 1,071 Pass Blocking Snaps<\/p>\n

Player Traits<\/p>\n

– Calculated movements<\/p>\n

– Good balance with his base<\/p>\n

– Strong anchoring ability<\/p>\n

– Able to recover nicely if he initially loses<\/p>\n

– Pass pro is his bread and butter right now<\/p>\n

Player Summary<\/p>\n

Austin Barber is one of the anchors of the Florida offensive line that helped the entire offense take a turn in the back half of the season. He has a good base not to lose his balance when in pass pro, allowing him to be most reliable in that area. If he is beaten, however, he can recover nicely and doesn\u2019t panic. It all culminates in him being smart and calculated in how he moves as an offensive tackle, something you don\u2019t see very often from the position.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer is here, and it is everyone\u2019s favorite time of the year, scouting time. Every year, we do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,210,374,211,692,391,318,339,19,7,248,267,88,6,15,245,537,520,57,530,818,817,829,9,266,819,426,209,250,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-143557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-bears","12":"tag-buccaneers","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-bears","15":"tag-college","16":"tag-college-sports","17":"tag-draft","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-national","20":"tag-national-sports","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-nfl-draft","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-pittsburgh","27":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","28":"tag-positive","29":"tag-scores","30":"tag-sport","31":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-statistics","35":"tag-steelers","36":"tag-tampa","37":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","38":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114712848909391954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}