4. Logan Jones, Iowa, 6-3, 302<\/p>\n
Jones is a freakish athlete who was dunking a basketball as a freshman in high school at over 250 pounds and holds the Iowa record for a center with a 36.6 vertical, per The Athletic. He was the 2025 recipient of the Rimington Trophy awarded to the best center in college football and has 50 college starts under his belt.<\/p>\n
5. Connor Lew, Auburn, 6-3, 303<\/p>\n
Lew took over the starting center spot as a true freshman in 2023 and has held onto it ever since. He shows a high football IQ and good movement skills for the position.<\/p>\n
Combine sleeper to watch: Parker Brailsford, Alabama, 6-2, 290<\/p>\n
A strong and nimble athlete who bench presses over 500 pounds, Brailsford was credited with 84 knockdown blocks in 2025 while allowing just one sack all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4. Logan Jones, Iowa, 6-3, 302 Jones is a freakish athlete who was dunking a basketball as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,416,5515,415,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-760273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","10":"tag-news-road-to-the-draft-yoy","11":"tag-news-twentyman","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116091613758380234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760273","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=760273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}