Get ready for the 2025 NFL Draft with our spotlight on Tyler Booker. Get the breakdown on their strengths and weaknesses in our scouting report, understand their potential with our draft profile, and see where experts predict they’ll land.
Tyler Booker’s NFL Draft Scouting Report
If you’re looking for a sturdy anchor at guard who can dish out punishment as well as he can absorb it, Tyler Booker is your guy. With a low center of gravity and a thick, well-proportioned frame, Booker is very tough to move at the point of attack.
His powerful lower half helps him neutralize power rushes along the interior, and his flexibility helps him maximize his power. Booker won’t necessarily wow you in space, though he did look a bit quicker after he lost weight before the 2024 season. His hand placement needs work, though there’s a lot to like in his game elsewhere.
Given his coordination, his length at guard, his IQ and stunt vision, and his power in a phone booth, Booker could end up selected in the middle of the first round. He likely won’t be targeted by wide zone teams, but he has the makings of a quality long-term starter in power, gap, and inside zone looks.
Looking for more analysis on prospects? Here’s our offensive guard scouting reports for the 2025 NFL Draft and all other positions.
Tyler Booker’s Lands in Dallas
Booker goes 12th overall to the Dallas Cowboys, hoping to improve an offensive line that finished the season 17th in PFSN’s Offensive Line+ metric in 2024 with a C+ season grade. Booker is the second straight offensive lineman and third in the last four drafts to go in the first round to Dallas.
PFSN’s Ian Cummings had projected Booker to be drafted 17th in his most recent 7-round 2025 NFL Mock Draft.
Cummings said, “Cincinnati Bengals fans will be torn on this pick, and understandably so. Tyler Booker tested as a below-average athlete, and Cincinnati has been burned by those kinds of linemen before. But the tape is spectacular, and in Cincinnati’s pass-heavy scheme, he’d be able to excel.
“Booker counteracts middling mobility with underrated flexibility and knee bend, calculated and efficient footwork, violent and opportunistic hands, and an assignment-sound awareness and understanding of positioning. On top of it all, he’s a maniacal competitor.”
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Tyler Booker’s NFL Draft Profile and Measurements
- Height: 6’5″
- Weight: 325 pounds
- Position: Offensive Guard
- School: Alabama
- Hand: 1100
- Arm: 3448
- Wing: 8348
Where Does Tyler Booker Rank Among 2025’s OG Prospects?
Here are the top 10 iOL rankings for the 2025 NFL Draft, according to PFSN Draft Analyst Ian Cummings:
1. Grey Zabel, North Dakota State
2. Tyler Booker, Alabama
3. Donovan Jackson, Ohio State
4. Jonah Savaiinaea, Arizona
5. Marcus Mbow, Purdue
6. Tate Ratledge, Georgia
7. Emery Jones Jr., LSU
8. Aireontae Ersery, Minnesota
9. Jared Wilson, Georgia
10. Charles Grant, William & Mary
Tyler Booker comes in as our second-ranked iOL in the 2025 NFL Draft, but he and the top iOL are separated by only one spot on the big board. Both are top-20 caliber prospects, and any choice between them is essentially a matter of preference and positional value.
Booker is a guard, and only a guard. And he plays the guard position better than anyone in the class. He’s a massive phone-booth blocker at 6’5″, 321 pounds, with 34 1/2″ arms, 11″ cinder blocks for hands, and surprising flexibility and knee bend for his size.
Booker is an average athlete, which reduces his ceiling. But he maximizes his size, strength, and power with elite footwork, calculated hand usage, sharp gap and stunt awareness, and brute tenacity. He’s a great football player who shouldn’t be overthought.
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