{"id":851834,"date":"2026-04-03T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851834\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:34:21","slug":"finding-broncos-scouting-texas-tech-nt-lee-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/851834\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Broncos: Scouting Texas Tech NT Lee Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/broncos\/onsi\/news\/eli-stowers-vanderbilt-scouting-report-broncos-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finding Broncos<\/a>\u00a0is back. It&#8217;s draft season, and we&#8217;re breaking down the coming class with individual scouting reports. <\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re breaking down a very intriguing nose tackle who could be in play for the Denver Broncos, depending on how the board falls.<\/p>\n<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech was Hunter&#8217;s last stop, after initially going to Auburn and then to UCF, where he played over 1,300 snaps. He had a big impact in both the run game and pass rush, but the transfer to Texas Tech helped take his game to another level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStats<\/p>\n<p>In his lone year at\u00a0Texas Tech, Hunter played 523 snaps, with 195 as a run defender and 328 as a pass rusher. He picked up 26 pressures with five sacks, while adding 25 stops. <\/p>\n<p>Hunter had a 12.4% pressure rate through the B gap and a 4.2% tackle-for-a-loss rate against the run, both in the top 15%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding Broncos\u00a0is back. It&#8217;s draft season, and we&#8217;re breaking down the coming class with individual scouting reports. Today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-851834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116342454591391748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851834","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=851834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}