T'Vondre Sweat

Titans selected Texas DT T’Vondre Sweat with the No. 38 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

Sweat (6’5/366) is a true super heavyweight who rarely gives an inch and eats up double-teams. A mountainous five-year defensive tackle who moves with supernatural quickness that belies his gargantuan frame, Sweat’s two-gapping ability earned him the highest PFF run grade (92.0) in the country last year. The Outland Trophy winner fine-tuned his approach on the rush and became an every down force, posting the sixth-highest pass rush grade (85.3) among P5 defensive tackles en route to earning Unanimous All-American recognition. To put his athleticism into perspective, his blazing 2.59s time-to-first-pressure this year is actually faster than his Texas counterpart Byron Murphy (2.63s), who is 60 pounds lighter. Sweat’s Combine performance wasn’t great with a 1.8s 10-yard split (46th%), 5.27s 40-yard dash (30th%) and 19th percentile broad jump (8’02”) for a combined 4.27 RAS that perhaps doesn’t tell the whole story with the massive defensive tackle. Sweat explodes into contact while leveraging his massive frame to extinguish running lanes and has the short-area burst to shoot through gaps and create havoc plays. Has the all around functional mass to routinely overpower lighter, movement oriented centers and demands extra attention in the middle. It’s unfortunate that he was arrested in April for DWI, but Sweat still has enough talent to become a dependable early-down run stuffer who can also bring heat up the middle when called upon in pass defense. He’s got a big man profile reminiscent of a souped-up Tyler Shelvin.