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 Sedrick Van Pran.
Van Pran will enter the NFL with extensive, high-level experience as a three-year starter (43 games) at center for Georgia. He played against the best college competition and in many big games with the spotlight shining the brightest.
Van Pran is an efficient, consistent center who was effective as a run blocker and pass protector. He plays with natural leverage and play strength with excellent hand usage, keeping them inside to generate confined space strength and control.
He stood out as a run blocker with snap-to-step quickness and an innate understanding of leverage when coming off the ball low, allowing him to get his hands inside to control and move DT. In pass protection, Van Pran was most effective when he could engage immediately and control the pass rusher with his hands inside. He showed enough functional mirror and re-direct to stay in front of the rusher.
There are balance and body control issues with Van Pran, and those issues could be exacerbated at the next level vs. more explosive interior pass rushers and more athletic and quicker-reacting LBs.
The more I watched Van Pran’s tape, the more I liked him. I believe he is one of the better center prospects in the 2024 draft class. His game is built more on physicality and competitive toughness than athleticism and movement. Still, he showed more than functional lateral quickness and climbing mobility to be an early starter at the next level.
Van Pran was a three-year starter at Georgia with 43 starts in those three seasons. In 2023, Van Pran earned First Team All-America honors. Van Pran came out of New Orleans as the top-rated center nationally and a top-100 recruit.
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