{"id":858860,"date":"2026-04-07T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858860\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:23:15","slug":"northwestern-lineman-earns-nfl-draft-comparison-to-jaguars-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858860\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern Lineman Earns NFL Draft Comparison to Jaguars Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Tiernan] brings very good lateral quickness and a smooth<br \/>\nfirst step as a blocker,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/nfl-draft\/2026\/big-board#content\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly said.<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;He stays balanced and moves his feet to<br \/>\nmatch countermoves, mirroring well to stay square with his opponent. He plays<br \/>\nwith upper-body power and strong hands, latching on to pass rushers, locking<br \/>\nhis arms out, and exerting control. When he lands his punch and establishes<br \/>\nleverage, it&#8217;s hard to get away from him. He strains to finish the block even<br \/>\nwhen it&#8217;s not pretty. Tiernan shows quick feet to reach and seal on outside<br \/>\nzone runs. When he fires out of his stance and stays low, he shows the ability<br \/>\nto move opponents off the line and create rush lanes. He moves from block to<br \/>\nblock at the second level, showing the ability to target and neutralize<br \/>\ndefenders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;[Tiernan] brings very good lateral quickness and a smooth first step as a blocker,&#8221;\u00a0Kelly said.\u00a0&#8220;He stays balanced and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,2401,213,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-858860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","12":"tag-jaguars","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116363408840820943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858860","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=858860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}