NFL Draft Profile - Ohio St's Tommy Eichenberg

Ohio State has been a linebacker factory, is Tommy Eichenberg to that level of quality?

The dropoff at the linebacker position happens pretty quickly, so our quest to prepare you for the top of the 2024 draft will not take very long in this thin spot. Today, we consider the case of a name we have heard plenty of over the last few years, Ohio State’s Tommy Eichenberg.

No. 35 - Tommy Eichenberg - Age 23 - 6’2 - 233 - Senior - Ohio State

Eichenberg is the younger brother of Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Liam Eichenberg who we covered in the 2021 draft cycle from Notre Dame. Tommy went to another blue-blood down the street at Ohio State and famously opted out of the 2023 draft because he did not want to leave the Buckeyes with a bad taste in his mouth and make things right in the fall of ‘23.

Football has a rough way of not always allowing storybook endings and he dislocated his elbow this season and by most accounts took a step backwards as a professional prospect, seeing just about every number go down.

That said, the past is prologue in the NFL draft and what you do from here is what will determine how things go forward. Let’s take a look at this player’s tape.