Round 6, Pick #200 Miami Selects Guard, DJ Campbell, Texas

NFL.com Draft Profile

Overview

Three-year starter at right guard with experience against NFL-caliber talent. Campbell is tough, strong and smart, but there are clear athletic limitations that create scheme-dependence and could limit his upside. He lacks functional bend and fluidity in space, which limits his range. He’s adept as a second-phase run blocker, with enough technique to neutralize and sustain in-line. He can also drop a sudden anchor to slow bull rushers. Campbell projects as a gap-scheme guard who can provide depth.

Strengths

• Outstanding durability as a three-year starter.
• Lacks ideal height but long arms make up for it.
• Bends and enters first contact with good leverage.
• Works feet and hips into position to seal his block.
• Core strength and quick hand resets stabilize base blocks.
• Able to step on the brakes when bull rush sees early life.
• Plays with quick eyes and is poised in the face of rush games.

Weaknesses

• Comes forward with helmet first and excessive lean.
• Lacks body control and timing on combo blocks.
• Success level diminishes when asked to block in space.
• Rarely cinches up and controls rusher with grip strength.
• Protection could use better posture and base width.
• Tight hips limit his ability to recover when beaten.

Simon Clancy Draft Profile

DEVON “DJ” CAMPBELL

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TEXAS

THE SKINNY: The former #1 prep G in the country, Campbell played 50 games with 43 starts for the

Longhorns and although he’s fairly scheme dependent, he has the power and heavy hands to do a job for

downhill teams who don’t require much lateral movement from their guards, and he has excellent tape against

2025 first rounders Mason Graham and Kenneth Grant, and potential 2026 first rounder Kayden McDonald.

There have been some penalty issues – 17 in the last two seasons including 10 in 2025 – but there’s talent there.

He started playing football in the 5th grade having been forced to by his parents, despite him insisting he only

wanted to play basketball and compete in discus and shot. But as he grew with the game he saw it as a way

out for him. “I can’t picture myself being happy doing anything else,” he said in an interview. A DT all through

youth football and into HS, he was told by his HC that he was being switched to the OL, a move he didn’t agree

with. But it worked out: he was selected to participate in the 2022 Under Armour All-America Game and ranked

as the 14th overall player in the class, choosing Texas over Texas A+M, Florida State, Alabama, USC,

Oklahoma, and LSU. A three-year starter at RG for the Horns, he’s well sized with good length and carries his

weight well on his frame. He uncurls a power punch from his long arms, plays with good leverage and uses pure

grip strength and power to torque his opponent out the club. He refits his hands brilliantly and his overall hand

placement is very good. I really like how he constantly rolls his hips through in the run game. In fact, few linemen

in this class do as good a job as he does at walling off, able to work his hands, feet and hips in synch. As a

puller he can be destructive but he’s a mechanical mover and his lateral agility isn’t great. If he doesn’t make first

contact with his punch in pass pro he can start to lean too much, and twitchy DT’s attack his edges or work

past him and he doesn’t have the recovery quickness in his feet to get back in. He struggles with inside

counters and needs work on stunts and games. He does a decent job of anchoring and rarely cedes ground

when he drops his hips, and that hand usage to re-direct is sound. You’ll want Campbell in a power heavy run

scheme to make use of his assets, but he understands how and where to be on multiple concepts from pin and

pull to some outside zone, and he can work backside combo blocks. He showed up at the Combine and

performed really well, especially athletically and in the workout portion. He backed out of the draft last year but

should be a sound pickup in the mid rounds. I’ve liked his tape for multiple years and I think he can start. He sat

out spring of 2023 after wrist surgery but generally he’s been very durable.

SIZE: 6024, 321

CLASS: Senior

RAS: 7.90

PFSN Draft Profile

DJ Campbell anchored the interior of Texas’ offensive line in 2025, as a 6’3″, 321-pound senior who held down the fort at right guard for three full seasons. Campbell overwhelms defenders with a dense, powerful frame and a natural anchor, giving him a high floor as a draft prospect. While he plays with heavy feet and is still polishing his hand placement on strikes, he often relies on raw physical gifts to win at the point of attack.

With improved technique and footwork, Campbell has the potential to develop into a dependable, power-driven guard at the next level. However, athletic limitations slightly cap his ceiling, and he projects better as a depth piece in the immediate timeline.