Silver And Black Pride
Position: DT
Height: 6’3
Weight: 310
Stats: 2025 (12 games) – 30 tackles, 3.5 TFL, 2 sacks, PBU | 15 pressures, 21 stops, 14.6% win rate
Class/Age: Junior, 20 (turns 21 in March)
Team: Clemson
Despite a down year in 2025 largely due to defensive scheming and other issues along the Clemson roster, Woods still remains a massive playmaker at defensive tackle. Woods has a lethal first step for his size quickly getting into his rep in elite fashion allowing him to be a wrecker with size, speed, and initial quickness. Woods has elite movement skills beyond his first step showcasing exceptional lateral quickness to pair with his ankle/knee flexibility and fluid hips allowing him to turn and bend with good twitch as well. Woods pairs this with elite strength in his upper and lower body, he has a special ability to drive his legs through the rep and pair with upper body power to move lineman off their feet and positioning. Woods pairs this with his strong natural hand strength that allows him to grab on and jam his arms into lineman’s chest consistently winning with his power and speed to power traits. Woods consistently is able to out power offensive lineman, anchor in the run game, and utilize his lower body power in pass rush with an extremely effective bull rush. He uses his hands well in strength to win in hand combat but also shows a variety of pass rush moves including a rip, chop, and club along with an unrefined spin that he will translate with due to his athletic nature. He’s a highly effective and efficient pass rusher, consistently winning over 14% of his attempts in college while also being a high impact run defender with a career 53% run stop win rate. Woods understands rushing concepts, he consistently anchors well and is able to play one or two gap assignments due to his frame and strength. He works well as a looper and against double teams consistently combating them in the correct order and having the athletic traits to overpower or out maneuver lineman. Woods has an ability to collapse rushing lanes from the interior, work backside against the run, and utilize his athletic traits laterally to impact the play where he’s consistently pushing lineman back into the rushing lane, stacking, peeking, and shedding blocks to clear lanes. Woods utilizes his first step well to convert speed to power and does so through the rep also. He also displays an exceptional motor with sideline to sideline effort and high end conditioning. Woods has a good traditional frame with exceptional arm length that he pairs with natural leverage.
Woods will need to rely less on his strength which he does at times, solely trying to win with strength or bull rush attempts. He will need to refine his consistently approach to winning by overpowering lineman, though while effective and it should translate could lead to issues later on. Additionally, Woods is...
