With the Jets set to pick seventh overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, let’s take a look at one prospect who may be a target: LSU offensive lineman Will Campbell.
By The Numbers
Height: 6-foot-6
Weight: 319 pounds
40-Yard Dash: 4.98
Vertical: 32 inches
Bench: DNP
Broad Jump: 113 inches
2024 Stats (12 games started): Zero sacks allowed, five penalties.
Prospect Overview
NFL.com:Athletic left tackle prospect who’s durable and battle-tested but has elements of high risk, high reward in his game. Campbell is a thumping run blocker who can clear out B-gaps with forceful down blocks and displace base blocks with his “strike and run” technique. His play is determined, spirited and aggressive, which works in his favor, but Campbell must learn to vary his pass-set technique and operate with optimal hand timing in order to thrive at tackle instead of being moved to guard.
Bleacher Report:Campbell is a prime candidate to move inside as a pro. He has the makeup, movement skills, play strength, and competitive toughness to make a smooth transition to guard or center and be an impact starter with Pro Bowl potential during his rookie contract.
Why Campbell makes sense for the Jets
On the face of it, drafting the best offensive lineman available would be a sensible move for the Jets, who have four of their five starting roles locked down, but uncertainty at the right tackle position. The interior trio – center Joe Tippmann and guards Alijah Vera-Tucker and John Simpson – will return as starters in 2025, while last year’s first round pick, Olu Fashanu, will be a full-time starter for the first time at left tackle.
If he is still available when the Jets are deciding whom to select with the seventh pick, Campbell is sure to be in consideration because he is widely regarded as the best offensive lineman in this year’s class. However, the concern with Campbell, who played left tackle throughout his college career, would be whether he is ideally suited to the right tackle position — where the Jets currently have a vacancy.
Campbell’s arm length was measured at 33 inches at his pro day, which is right on the edge of the threshold at which teams would view him as lacking adequate length to play the tackle position at the NFL level. Some teams will therefore view him as a guard, although he remains resolute in his belief that he can handle the tackle position at this level.
Some have speculated that Vera-Tucker could move to tackle, as he has done in previous seasons when there have been injuries. However, he’s been resistant about the idea of moving out of his best position and that’s unlikely to change as he enters the last year of his contract. Darren Mougey has confirmed that the Jets are leaving Vera-Tucker at right guard, and with Simpson’s role at left guard secure, that would mean that Campbell starting at guard in his rookie season wouldn’t be an option unless there was an injury.
In theory, the Jets could draft Campbell, initially make him their starting right tackle and then — if it looks like he’d be better off inside — they can make that move next season when Simpson and Vera-Tucker both become free agents. However, that wouldn’t be an ideal allocation of resources in the first season of the Aaron Glenn regime.
Campbell is obviously talented, though, and his combination of size, strength, and athleticism could be too tempting to pass up if he drops far enough. You don’t just draft a player for how they will fit in and what they can contribute during their rookie year, so if the Jets think Campbell is talented enough to develop into an elite lineman in the long run, they could still pull the trigger — regardless of where on the line his future lies.
NFL Comparison
Bleacher Report:David DeCastro
With the Jets set to pick seventh overall in the 2025 NFL Draft, let’s take a look at one prospect who may be a target: LSU offensive lineman Will Campbell.
By The Numbers
Height: 6-foot-6
Weight: 319 pounds
40-Yard Dash: 4.98
Vertical: 32 inches
Bench: DNP
Broad Jump: 113 inches
2024 Stats (12 games started): Zero sacks allowed, five penalties.
Prospect Overview
NFL.com:Athletic left tackle prospect who’s durable and battle-tested but has elements of high risk, high reward in his game. Campbell is a thumping run blocker who can clear out B-gaps with forceful down blocks and displace base blocks with his “strike and run” technique. His play is determined, spirited and aggressive, which works in his favor, but Campbell must learn to vary his pass-set technique and operate with optimal hand timing in order to thrive at tackle instead of being moved to guard.
Bleacher Report:Campbell is a prime candidate to move inside as a pro. He has the makeup, movement skills, play strength, and competitive toughness to make a smooth transition to guard or center and be an impact starter with Pro Bowl potential during his rookie contract.
Why Campbell makes sense for the Jets
On the face of it, drafting the best offensive lineman available would be a sensible move for the Jets, who have four of their five starting roles locked down, but uncertainty at the right tackle position. The interior trio – center Joe Tippmann and guards Alijah Vera-Tucker and John Simpson – will return as starters in 2025, while last year’s first round pick, Olu Fashanu, will be a full-time starter for the first time at left tackle.
If he is still available when the Jets are deciding whom to select with the seventh pick, Campbell is sure to be in consideration because he is widely regarded as the best offensive lineman in this year’s class. However, the concern with Campbell, who played left tackle throughout his college career, would be whether he is ideally suited to the right tackle position — where the Jets currently have a vacancy.
Campbell’s arm length was measured at 33 inches at his pro day, which is right on the edge of the threshold at which teams would view him as lacking adequate length to play the tackle position at the NFL level. Some teams will therefore view him as a guard, although he remains resolute in his belief that he can handle the tackle position at this level.
Some have speculated that Vera-Tucker could move to tackle, as he has done in previous seasons when there have been injuries. However, he’s been resistant about the idea of moving out of his best position and that’s unlikely to change as he enters the last year of his contract. Darren Mougey has confirmed that the Jets are leaving Vera-Tucker at right guard, and with Simpson’s role at left guard secure, that would mean that Campbell starting at guard in his rookie season wouldn’t be an option unless there was an injury.
In theory, the Jets could draft Campbell, initially make him their starting right tackle and then — if it looks like he’d be better off inside — they can make that move next season when Simpson and Vera-Tucker both become free agents. However, that wouldn’t be an ideal allocation of resources in the first season of the Aaron Glenn regime.
Campbell is obviously talented, though, and his combination of size, strength, and athleticism could be too tempting to pass up if he drops far enough. You don’t just draft a player for how they will fit in and what they can contribute during their rookie year, so if the Jets think Campbell is talented enough to develop into an elite lineman in the long run, they could still pull the trigger — regardless of where on the line his future lies.
NFL Comparison
Bleacher Report:David DeCastro
