Sonny Styles | 2026 NFL Draft Profile: Post-Combine Top-50 Snapshot
NFL Draft Analyst Will Rock Grades Sonny Styles At #2 In The Detroit Football Journal Top-50 Players 2.0
#2 | LB | Sonny Styles | OSU
Ht: 6’5” (6050) | Wt: 244 | Hand: 10” | Arm: 32.875” | Wing: 80.875” | Ape: 1.05
2025 Stats: 82 Tackles | 1 Sack | 6.5 TFLs | 1 INT | 11 Pressures
Key Stats: 38 Stops | 75.8 Passer Rate | 2.2% Missed Tackle Rate
PFF: 87.4 CG | 65.1 Pass RG | 87.8 RDG | 87.9 Overall
Draft Stock: ↗️↙️ No Change | Previous Rank #2
Player Profile Snapshot
Sonny Styles is the prototype for the modern NFL “position-less” defender—a 244-pound eraser pairing an edge-rusher’s frame with a cornerback’s gimbaled hips. A former five-star safety who migrated to the second level to anchor the Buckeyes’ 2024 championship defense, Styles spent 2025 essentially eliminating the “missed tackle” from his vocabulary. Standing 6-foot-5 with a massive 1.05 Ape Index, he led the nation with a staggering 2.2% missed-tackle rate. Styles is a historic outlier, utilizing 32 7/8-inch arms to lock out linemen and erase vertical seams with elite lateral range.
