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Gipson

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport was the first to report the trade. Gipson signed with the Jaguars earlier this offseason after spending 2023 with the Titans. In eight games, Gipson totaled six tackles and one sack and has totaled 11 sacks in 48 career games. Gipson isn’t anything more than added depth on a Seahawks roster that’s trying to bolster its defense before the start of the season.

Gipson entered the league as a fifth-round pick of the Bears in 2020 but has emerged over the last two seasons. Since 2021, Gipson has appeared in 33 games, which includes 19 starts, and has 10 sacks over that span. He should have a chance to earn meaningful snaps fairly early in Tennessee.

A high school basketball star, Gipson (6'3/261) was lightly recruited out of Texas before a slow-developing college career that saw him break out for eight sacks as a senior. Gipson plays long but with power. Nevertheless, The Athletic’s Dane Brugler highlights balance issues due to a high center of gravity as a potential pro concern, calling Gipson “fundamentally raw.” That is not surprising for an ex-basketball player, though Gipson is also on the old side for a prospect (23 in June). 2020 could be his one shot to prove his project worthiness to the Bears.

A high school basketball star, Gipson (6'3/261) was lightly recruited out of Texas before a slow-developing college career that saw him break out for eight sacks as a senior. Gipson plays long but with power. Nevertheless, The Athletic’s Dane Brugler highlights balance issues due to a high center of gravity as a potential pro concern, calling Gipson “fundamentally raw.” That is not surprising for an ex-basketball player, though Gipson is also on the old side for a prospect (23 in June). 2020 could be his one shot to prove his project worthiness to the Bears.

"[Gipson] doesn’t have go-to moves and counters, but the rush is real with a long, explosive first step and the athleticism and length to win the edge and harass the pocket,” Zierlein writes of the 6-foot-3, 261-pounder. The analyst notes that at this juncture in Gipson’s development, he remains “quite raw” in terms of a technical base, but sees him as a “diamond-in-the-rough” for a team with the patience to bring him along.

Gipson (6'4"/253) graded out as PFF’s highest-rated AAC EDGE run-defender in 2018 with a 88.7 grade. In 2019 he has recorded 49 tackles, 25 solo, with two forced-fumbles and a team leading eight sacks. Gipson was identified in the summer by Draft Network’s Tony Pauline as the best NFL prospect on the Tulsa roster and he has only built on that perception with his performance this season. His 40-time is reported to be in the 4.8-4.9 range, so how he practices and tests at the Collegiate Bowl will go a long way to establishing his draft value.

That honor would have gone to Waahid Muhammad, but the tackle has medically retired. Pauline notes that the 6-foot-4, 253-pound defender is a “relatively athletic” prospect, and that he shows “excellent length and growth potential.” The issue here is that Gipson just hasn’t shown the ability to have these traits transfer to making plays, and Pauline notes that he ‘desperately’ needs to show the ability to do so in 2019. If he can, this could be a potential sleeper for the 2020 draft.