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Donovan Ezeiruaku

EDGE·Dallas Cowboys
Tier 7Round 2, pick 44 in 2025
Updated November 10, 2026
74.0
Model Score
Down from 74.6 last year
Trade value ·a 3rd

Recruited

Class of 2021 · Linebacker · High school: Williamstown, NJ

Recruiting sites
★★★★★
No. 1,240 in the nation. Composite 0.8485, the recruiting sites' average
Offers
Partial list
None on record beyond his commitment
Committed to

Partial offer list. Offer lists for the 2021 class are partial everywhere we can read them: we hold 3 or more offers for 43 of 3,366 recruits, and we grade only those boards.

College: Boston College 2021-24

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Our College Grade

90.7 MODEL
2021
60.3
2022
86.7
2023
65.0
2024
96.0
Ranked #132 among EDGEBroke out at 18.0

How good he was in college at what his position is supposed to do, out of 100. Scored against everyone else at his position, adjusted for the level he played at. This is not his NFL grade.

College Production

Boston College · ACC

SeasonTklTFLSacksHurPDPos Rk
20211932.000246
202256147.54228
20235361.071165
2024761813.514120

The seasons in our college data. It does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Scouting Report

Boston College · 2025 draft class

Ezeiruaku is an athletic edge defender with impressive burst, bend, and developing technical refinement. His first-step quickness stresses offensive tackles, and his flexibility allows him to turn tight corners around the edge. Ezeiruaku shows developing hand usage, with improving technique to disengage from blocks. In run defense, he sets a solid edge with the strength to hold his ground against tight ends and tackles. His motor runs consistently hot, pursuing plays with relentless effort and finishing tackles with authority.

Strengths

  • First-step explosion
  • bend around the edge
  • developing hand technique
  • motor
  • pursuit effort
  • positional versatility
  • developmental upside
  • closing burst

Concerns

  • Still adding functional strength
  • needs to expand pass rush arsenal
  • can improve consistency against the run
  • developing counter moves

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