The 2024 NFL Draft is here, making it an excellent time to highlight some of the class' best players with scouting reports. Each report will include strengths, weaknesses and background information.
Here's our report on Trevor Keegan.
Keegan was a three-year starter at left guard for Michigan (39 career starts). He is a physical interior lineman with good strength and a playing personality that allows him to generate movement and control defenders once engaged. He's a long lineman with good hands to engage and maintain his blocks but tends to be over-aggressive and lean into blocks, causing him to play off balance.
His movement in space as a run blocker when pulling or playing on the edge or up in the second level (solid footwork) shows good quickness. He plays with very good vision and feel for defensive schemes and stunts in how he trades off defenders smoothly. Keegan has inconsistent mechanics and technique at times at the point of attack due to his aggressive playing style. That can cause him to struggle to maintain his blocks after initial contact.
Overall, Keegan is an intriguing prospect because he has the size to play either inside at guard or on the edge at tackle. At Michigan, he played exclusively at left guard. He would provide versatile depth. He has a nasty, physical playing personality with good power and strength at the point of attack as a run blocker and pass blocker (solid anchor). Combining his strength with good footwork and lateral agility makes Keegan a good early Day 3 pick with the potential to develop into a good NFL starter.
Keegan came out of Crystal Lake, Ill., as a four-star recruit, ranked 19th in the nation at tackle and No. 1 in the state. He was a three-year starter with 39 career starts at Michigan, all at left guard. Keegan earned All-Big Ten Honorable Mention in 2021, first-team All-Big Ten in 2022 and second-team All-Big Ten in 2023.
In the past three seasons, Keegan had the 13th-most offensive snaps at left guard with all 2,111 snaps, and one at right guard. Of these plays, he had 936 pass plays, allowing only 13 pressures (1.4 percent pressure rate). Keegan had 1,174 running plays with only 16 snaps of blown assignments (1.4 percent bad run block rate). Both block rates were in the middle of the pack of left guards.
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