NFL Draft Profile: Chico Bennett Jr., EDGE, Virginia Cavaliers
Chico Bennett Jr.
Virginia Cavaliers
#15
Pos: EDGE
Ht: 6035
Wt: 250
40: 4.69
Hometown: Ashburn, VA
High School: Battle Ground Academy
Eligibility: 2023
One-Liner:
A Senior Bowl Watchlist member, Bennett will have to add production to traits in order to garner draft positioning.
Evaluation:
Usually plays in a two-point stance as an edge defender. Long linear frame with lower body mass. Decent get-off to push tackles into their set. Run him as a looper on twists and games. Gets his arms up when he can't affect the play as a pass rusher. Lacks recognition on split-flow action. Gets washed down and pancaked by tight ends. Let’s tackles get hands on him far too easily. Not a lot of pass rush moves seldom pushes the pocket. Bennett has some desirable characteristics but has scarcely seen the field and produced to an extraordinary level when he is. In order to earn a considerable grade, he will need to add to his resume the rest of 2022.
Grade:
UDFA
Background:
Chico Bennett Jr. is from Ashburn, Virginia and is listed already on the Senior Bowl 2023 preseason watch list. Before coming to Virginia, he played at Georgia Tech for two seasons, where he appeared in fifteen games for the team. He also led all freshmen at Georgia Tech with seventeen tackles. While attending Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee and Rock Ridge High School is Ashburn, Bennett Jr had successful high school careers. Bennett is currently majoring in Sociology and he uncle, Leon Moore, played in the NFL for the LA Rams from 1967-1969.
