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Find the most comprehensive analysis on Will Echoles, featuring Todd McShay’s evaluations. Official measurables, advanced analytics, and a scout’s eye provide the most in-depth breakdown of a prospect’s strengths and weaknesses, NFL draft projection, and potential at the next level.

Interior Defensive Linemen

Will Echoles

Grade92 /100
Pos Rank1
OVR Rank18
School
MISS

Experience

Played24
Started16

POSITION STATS LAST SEASON

Tackles
68
Sacks
5
TFL
11.5
FF
0
PBU
5
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Position-Specific Grades

MEASURABLES

Height(E)
6' 2 3/8"
Weight(E)
309lbs
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The Takeaway

The Player

Echoles is a talented and productive interior defensive lineman with the versatility to play in one-gap and two-gap schemes. He shoots his hands, anchors well with a low center of gravity, locates the ball, and gets off blocks in time to make plays.

He’s a powerful tackler who recorded an impressive 68 tackles and 11.5 tackles for loss in 2025. Echoles can press and drive blockers into gaps or the backfield, while his strong hands and quickness allow him to slip blocks and penetrate. He’s not a massive space eater, however, and he can occasionally get displaced by double-teams.

Echoles does an outstanding job of reading the quarterback and getting his hands into passing lanes; he recorded five sacks and batted down five passes in 2025. Still, his pass rush upside is somewhat capped by just adequate closing speed and change of direction. 

After playing eight games as a true freshman in 2024, Echoles started all 15 games and earned first-team All-SEC honors in 2025.