Towering Tar Heel D-lineman with NFL build and a checkered injury past
Jalen Dalton was a 4-star North Carolina recruit in the 2015 class and brought a rare 6-6, 300-pound frame to the Tar Heels, giving him legitimate power and length as an interior disruptor. His appeal is the classic “traits over tidy box score” profile: big-body leverage, size to eat blocks, and enough athletic upside to stick on pro radars. The caution flag is durability—his college career was interrupted by injuries, which makes him more of a high-upside, high-variance fit than a sure-thing anchor.
