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Malik Harrison LB
Scouting Report
It took him until his senior season, but Ohio State linebacker Malik Harrison has seen his draft stock take a massive rise after entering the season as a day three flier. Harrison has now played himself into a Reese’s Senior Bowl invite and into a potential day-two pick in the 2020 NFL Draft this upcoming April.
While his solo tackles have taken a bit of a dip this year (mainly because he is not making tackles six yards off the ball anymore), Harrison has had his nose in opposing backfields all season. After just eight and a half tackles for loss and two and a half sacks a year ago, Harrison has jumped those numbers to 16 tackles for loss and six and a half sacks from the second level of the much improved Ohio State defense this year.
Harrison has great size for the linebacker position at 6-3 and 240 pounds, has seen a jump in production, and is expected to test well. The Ohio State product has all of the makings of a linebacker prospect who could continue to climb up boards, despite the slow start to his career.
Right now this writer has a fourth round grade on Harrison, but at the combine, he has the ability to raise that even further.