The 2024 NFL Draft is getting close, 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 Jaden Crumedy.
Crumedy is an intriguing prospect as you project and transition him to the next level, given his outstanding size and length profile, extensive experience in the SEC and the flashes of quickness, playmaking and pass rush he showed at almost 6-foot-4 and 300 pounds.
Crumedy was by no means a strong snap-after-snap player, but there were snaps in the run game and as a pass rusher in which you saw the kind of movement you don’t always see from a DL with that kind of size. Crumedy has meaningful pass rush potential inside and, at times, outside if it can be unlocked with coaching and technique work.
One of his issues is that he cannot maintain balance and body control after his initial move, which prevents him from impacting and finishing. There were snaps in the run game in which Crumedy showed 2-gap strength and power to control and displace OL and make plays at the LOS in the run game, but there were too many snaps in which he was too easily moved out of the POA.
Crumedy has outstanding size, length and higher-level movement traits, and there is no question there is a lot in his body if it can be developed with coaching and more experience. Crumedy can be a position versatile DL in both four-man and five-man fronts and odd and even fronts who can be a factor as a run defender and pass rusher, including off the edge where he showed enough body flexibility to bend and flatten.
Overall, Crumedy could be a strong rotational DL with starter potential, or he could be a player who struggles to make a roster, and it is hard to know that based on his 2023 college tape
Crumedy played five years at Mississippi State with 47 starts in 53 games. He finished his MSU career with 39 consecutive starts.
Crumedy lined up in multiple positions along the MSU defensive front and was featured at times as a looper and penetrator in multiple stunt concepts (a third-down sack versus LSU came as the penetrator in the E/T concept).
There were snaps in which he was deployed as a standup Joker in the middle of the defense (Alabama game). The Texas A&M game showed a lot of the traits that Crumedy possesses as a run defender and pass rusher, and he played with high intensity.
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