2022 WorldWide Rams Draft Profile: Thomas Booker | Stanford | DT

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Ed "Pi Double i" Henderson

Player Bio:Thomas Booker prepped at Gilman High School located in Ellicott City, MD. He recorded 39 tackles, five sacks, nine tackles for loss, one forced fumble, and two pass deflections in his senior year. However, his junior season was better, with 77 tackles, four sacks, 14 tackles for loss, one interception, and two blocked field goals as a junior. He garnered the 2016 USA Today all-state first team and a two-time All-Metro first-team, Baltimore Touchdown Club Super 22, and the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete. Booker also competed in basketball and track as he led the team to the Maryland Interscholastic Athletics Association Indoor Track Championships title.
First in the shot, put 48-6 at Maryland Interscholastic Athletics Association Indoor Track Championships.
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ACCOLADES
​2022 NFL Combine Participant
2022 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
2021 William V. Campbell Trophy finalist  
2021 Senior CLASS Award First-Team
2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America First-Team
2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District 
2021 Phil Steele All-Pac-12 Second-Team
2021 Coaches All-Pac-12 Second-Team
2021 Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
2020 Coaches All-Pac-12 First-Team
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America First-Team
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District
2020 Phil Steele All-Pac-12 Second-Team
2020 Coaches All-Pac-12 Second-Team
2020 Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
2019 Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
2019 Coaches All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention 
2018 Pacific Takes Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
2018 Jimmy Rogers, Jr. Most Valuable Lineman of Sun Bowl 
2018 247 Sports True Freshman All-America Team ​

THOMAS BOOKER
DEFENSIVE TACKLE
HOMETOWN                      |           CLASS
ELLICOTT CITY, MD          |           SENIOR 
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DRAFT YR:  2022              COMBINE INVITE: YES

​HEIGHT                    WEIGHT                    ARMS
 6' 3"                301 lbs            33 ¼"

HANDS                   PROJECTED 40-TIME            DRAFT GRADE
10 ⅝"                   5.10                        5.86

​​​​​​​SCHOOL:  STANFORD                                  |                    CONFERENCE: PAC-12
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COMBINE RESULTS
40 YD DASH     |     BENCH PRESS     |     VERTICAL JUMP     |     BROAD JUMP     |     3 CONE DRILL     |     20 YD SHUTTLE    
​       4.94         |             DNP              |               DNP              |            110”          |             7.33            |              4.41                      
 
​PRO DAY RESULTS
40 YD DASH     |     BENCH PRESS     |     VERTICAL JUMP     |     BROAD JUMP     |     3 CONE DRILL     |     20 YD SHUTTLE    
​       DNP         |              DNP              |                31”             |              DNP          |              DNP            |             DNP

game film
#4 Thomas booker vs stanford (2021)

Strengths

• He is versatile, athletic, quick, with good agility, and has a nice solid frame for the defensive line.
• His versatility allows him to play the defensive line positions as a 1-tech, 3-tech, and some 5-tech alignments; he also could plugin as a defensive tackle in a 4-3 alignment.
• His short-area burst of speed the displayed nicely at the 2022 NFL Combine with a 4.94 40-yard dash and 4.41 shuttle run.
• His quickness allows him to have a substantial get-off at the snap of the ball.
• He shows fair agility when needed to move laterally across the field.
• He has good strength from his upper body that connects long arms to withstand blockers from getting into his chest. 
• He has very big hands, with a strong grip that enables him to manipulate the flow of the blockers counter

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Weaknesses

• He lacks the high motor and tends to give up on plays outside of his gap integrity.
• He will struggle at times with bigger linemen disengaging from blocks.
• He demonstrates some stiffness in his torso and lacks the flexibility to be outside the B-gaps.
• He struggles to recognize double-team blocks or switches of blocking assignments.
• He needs to get stronger in his trunk; double-team blocks bury him right out of the play.
• He struggled to get sacks and will need to improve his pass-rushing skills.
• At the 5-tech, he does not get a great bend, which allows the blockers to control his path.

Draft Projection: 4th - 5th Round

NFL Comparison: Sebastian Joseph-Day (Los Angeles Chargers)

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