Anthony Belton | Offensive Tackle | N.C. State | 6'6" - 336 lbs.

 

Overview
Belton is an enormous tackle with good power and long arms. He can bulldoze the roads clean for running backs but needs to play with better hand placement to sustain his early lead. Belton has the length to shove rushers up and around the pocket but his punch timing is inconsistent and he lacks the body control to consistently respond to inside counters. If a team can steady his feet and improve his hand placement, he could become a solid starter at right tackle, but he will need some help from time to time.

Strengths

• Wide frame slows rushers’ progress at the edge.
• Upper-body power to rock rushers off track with his punch.
• Displays ability to sink pad level and drop a late anchor.
• Surprisingly nimble feet getting to his back-side blocks.
• Drive power widens gaps when squaring the block.
• Potential to become a more dominant blocker with tweaks to hands.
• Hungry to drive opponents into the grass as a block finisher.

Weaknesses

• Unable to gather and correct quickly when he oversteps his block.
• Second-level targets are able to elude his blocks in space.
• Inconsistent hand placement leads to slippage and shaky sustain.
• Can be out-raced to the top of the rush.
• Heel-clicking pass slides diminish anchor stability against power.
• Slow to change direction and mirror rush counters.

2019 (Georgia Military Academy): Played in 11 games at OT.
2020 (Georgia Military Academy): School did not play due to COVID-19 concerns.
2021: Played in 2 games as a reserve.
2022: Played in 13 games with 8 starts at LT.
2023: Third-team All-ACC. Started all 13 games at LT.
2024: Played in 12 games with 11 starts at LT. Did not play in the team's Military Bowl loss to East Carolina.

Anthony Belton doesn't exclusively view himself as a left tackle. "I'm a competitor and a ball player," he says. "I want to put myself in a position where I'm one of the five out there, and if it's at guard, I'm going to figure out how to be the best version of myself at guard."

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O my goodness. Not impressive.

On the highlight reel, he held on 1/2 of these highlights. From what I see, this guy is not a tackle, maybe a road grader guard, but he doesn't have the feet.

This guy is 4th or 5th round pick at best. Wow, very disappointing

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Did a flag get thrown? OL hold all the time, as long as it doesn't get called, and to protect the QBs, the NFL has stopped flagging OL nearly as much, especially on the inside.

My question is what position do they have Belton at?

LT - settings up a power running attack especially to the left side with Belton, Banks and Jenkins? But Belton will probably struggle against speed rushers.

OR

RG - where he shouldn't have an issue with the speed rushers, but also will have to adjust to the new position, but he potentially might be absolutely dominant in that role.

With Banks, Jenkins, Belton and Tom running blocking strength.

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If he does the same thing on Sunday, he will get flagged.

He is a guard....and could have been drafted in the 4th IMO

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I strongly doubt it, there was a good run on OL.

I doubt he would go after these guys, and they all got picked.

Emery Jones Jr., LSU
Caleb Rogers, Texas Tech
Charles Grant, William & Mary

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