Monroe Freeling

Summary

Monroe Freeling (21 years old) is an offensive tackle who has played his entire college career at Georgia with no transfers. In 2025, Freeling started throughout the season at right tackle and allowed just two sacks across more than 400 pass-blocking snaps, helping anchor one of the SEC’s most balanced offensive lines. His 2025 campaign earned him Second-Team All-SEC honors and All-America consideration, building on steady rotational development earlier in his career within Georgia’s deep offensive line room. Freeling has maintained solid academic standing and is widely viewed as a team-first, detail-oriented lineman whose length, composure, and practice habits consistently draw praise from coaches, with no publicly reported significant off-field incidents. Teammates frequently point to his willingness to embrace competition and development as indicators of his maturity within a veteran-heavy program. From an injury standpoint, Freeling has been durable throughout his career, with no major injuries causing extended absences, reinforcing his reliability as a multi-year starter.

Strengths

• Ideal Frame/Length: Tall, long-limbed build with the wingspan to widen rush arcs and control first contact. Shows awareness of replacing hands and re-leveraging mid-rep rather than locking and leaning.

• Typewriter Feet: Moves smoothly in vertical sets and shows the range to carry speed rushers up the arc. Can reopen hips and reattach when initially stressed, especially versus pure speed. Movement skills suggest long-term upside if strength and timing catch up to tools.

• The Natural: Gains good ground off the snap and understands how to create space to protect the corner as a pass blocker where he flourishes (11.36 Pass Block Score is second highest in the class).

• High Exposure: Has been coached in a pro-style structure by Phil Rauscher with NFL technique foundations. Comfortable working laterally on stretch and wide-zone concepts.

Weaknesses

• Sand in the Pants: Lean and high-cut frame with room for improvement in lower body. Can get compressed by power rushers and while traits are strong, refinement is needed before projecting as a plug-and-play NFL starter..

• Balance Under Duress: Tall frame leads to high contact points, making him susceptible to long-arm and leverage-based rushes. Weight can drift forward in pass sets, leading to overextension and recovery scrambling.

• Strike Precision: Will lunge or shoot late, exposing chest and allowing defenders into his frame. When protecting width, he can open hips early and struggle to shut down inside moves.

• Mind The Gap: More positional than powerful and doesn’t consistently generate vertical movement at point of attack. Can arrive under control but lacks consistent pop when climbing to linebackers. As high as his pass blocking score was, his 7.76 Run Block Score is one of the lowest in the class).

Outlook

Freeling projects as a long, athletic edge blocker with light feet, strong second-level mobility, and developmental upside tied to his frame and movement skills, giving him intriguing long-term starter potential. He fits best in zone-heavy and play-action based offenses that emphasize reach blocks, climb-and-seal concepts, and tackles who can operate in space rather than purely downhill gap systems. Freeling as a day one starter is more of a Day 2 prospect with a Round 2–3 projection, but if a team is going off his length, traits, and ceiling, he will likely be a “riser” as we approach draft day. Keep an eye on the Cleveland Browns with new Head Coach Todd Monken’s strong roots into the Georgia program.

Pro Comparison: Kolton Miller

Team Fits: CLE, HOU, SF, GB, DET