{"id":682869,"date":"2026-01-16T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:18:07","slug":"packers-draft-which-ol-prospect-have-played-tackle-guard-or-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/682869\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers Draft: Which OL prospect have played tackle, guard or center?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on conversations with scouts I\u2019ve had, the expectation is that this class is actually pretty good on the offensive line, but it\u2019s pretty weak at center (not great news for us, as the only projected 2026 starter not locked into a deal right now is Sean Rhyan, with an Elgton Jenkins cap casualty release on the horizon<\/a>).<\/p>\n

With that being said, some players are expected to move to the center position at the next level. We\u2019ll talk about them at the end of this article.<\/p>\n

Here is the full position-by-position breakdown and career snap counts of every top-200 offensive lineman currently on Pro Football Focus\u2019 big board<\/a> (I used PFF because there are few in-depth public boards at the moment. This also isn\u2019t PFF\u2019s data. Do not sue me).<\/p>\n

Yes, there are only five centers available who PFF projects to go in the top-200, only one (Florida\u2019s Jake Slaughter) who has healthy ACLs (good luck on the recovery, Connor Lew) and is expected to go in the top-143 picks of the draft.<\/p>\n

With that being said, some guys have been tabbed as potential center converts by scouts. Those players are Texas A&M tackle Trey Zuhn II (actually worked as both a tackle and center in camp this year but really only played tackle for the Aggies) and Duke tackle Brian Parker II (who, like Zuhn, was measured in with shorter arms this spring and is expected to, at minimum, move inside at the next level).<\/p>\n

Michigan State center Matt Gulbin and Kansas State center Sam Hecht, who didn\u2019t make it on the top-200 cutoff for PFF\u2019s player rankings, are also prospects that have come up in conversations with scouts about this center class. If you want a fun story, Kansas\u2019 Bryce Foster, who may or may not get drafted, was a five-star recruit coming out of high school and not only is an All-Big 12 center but also competed in the NCAA\u2019s outdoor track and field championships as a discus thrower. Part of the reason he left A&M is that the staff requested he solely focus on football, which led to his two-sport transfer to Kansas.<\/p>\n

There are also other players, like Iowa\u2019s Gennings Dunker, who are fully expected to have to move positions in the NFL. Dunker is a great run blocker who has shorter arms for his frame and struggles athletically in space when asked to pass block on an island. For the most part, the league seems to view him as a guard-only player, despite playing college football as a right tackle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Based on conversations with scouts I\u2019ve had, the expectation is that this class is actually pretty good on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,623,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-682869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-draft","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115907334565079182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682869","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=682869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}