Originally drafted in the first round (11th overall) by Cincinnati in 2019. The Bengals exercised his fifth-year option on 4/29/22. Signed a two-year contract with the Cardinals on 3/14/24.
2023: Started all 17 games at right tackle and played every offensive snap for Cincinnati … helped Joe Mixon run for 1,000+ yards for the second time in three seasons … helped protect Joe Burrow who completed 31-of-44 pass attempts for 348 yards and two TDs while only being sacked once in a win vs. Buf (11/5) … part of an offensive line that did not allow a sack of Jake Browning who completed 18-of-24 pass attempts for 275 yards and two TDs in a win vs. Ind (12/10) … protected Browning at Jax (12/4) as he put together a career performance, completing 32-of-37 pass attempts (86.5%) for 354 yards and a TD in an overtime win … helped pave the way for a season-high 183 rushing yards, including 111 from Mixon, in the season finale vs. Cle (1/7/24).
2022: Started 16 regular season games and one postseason contest at left tackle … part of a top five passing offense (265.0 passing ypg – 5th in NFL) … protected Joe Burrow as he set single-season Bengals franchise records for completions (414) and passing touchdowns (35) … protected Burrow as he completed 34-of-42 pass attempts for 481 yards and three TDs vs. Atl (10/23); the 481 passing yards marked the second-highest single-game total of his NFL career … helped pave the way for the team to run for 241 yards and five TDs vs. Car (11/6), including 153 yards and four TDs from Joe Mixon; the 241 yards were the most by the Bengals in a single game since 2016, the five rushing TDs were the most since 1986 and Mixon's four rushing TDs were a career high … part of an offensive line that protected Burrow as he completed 24-of-39 pass attempts for 355 yards and four TDs in a win @ Pit (11/20) … helped open holes for Samaje Perrine to run for 100+ yards (106) for the first time since 2017 vs. KC (12/4) … part of an offensive line that protected Burrow as he completed 40-of-52 pass attempts for 375 yards and three TDs in a win @ NE (12/24) … started at left tackle in the Wild Card Round vs. Bal (1/15/23) where he suffered a knee injury that forced him to miss the remainder of the postseason.
2021: Started 16 regular season games and all four postseason games, including Super Bowl LVI, at left tackle … blocked for a passing offense that ranked seventh in the NFL averaging 259.0 ypg … protected Joe Burrow as he set single-season Cincinnati franchise records for passing yards (4,611) and passer rating (108.3); helped protect Burrow as he passed for 400+ yards in three games, which matched the fourth-most 400+ passing yards games in a single NFL season since at least 1970 … helped pave the way for Joe Mixon to run for a career-best 1,205 yards … helped open holes for Mixon to run for 127 yards and one TD in a win vs. Min (9/12) … part of an offensive line that did not allow a sack of Burrow @ Pit (9/26) … protected Burrow while he completed 25-of-32 pass attempts for 348 yards and two TDs vs. Jax (9/30) … part of an offensive line that allowed just one sack @ Bal (10/24) while Burrow passed for 416 yards and three TDs … helped pave the way for Mixon to run for 123 yards and two TDs @ LV (11/21) … opened holes for Mixon to run for a career-high 165 yards and two TDs the following week vs. Pit (11/28); Mixon became just the second Bengals RB since at least 1970 to have 120+ rushing yards and two rushing TDs in consecutive games … protected Burrow as he completed 37-of-46 pass attempts (80.4%) for a career-high 525 yards, four TDs, zero INTs and a passer rating of 143.2 vs. Bal (12/26); the 525 passing yards set a Bengals franchise record and is the fourth-most passing yards in a single game in NFL history … helped protect Burrow the following week as he completed 30-of-39 pass attempts for 446 yards, four TDs and a passer rating of 148.0 in a win vs. KC (1/2/22); Burrow became just the second NFL QB to have consecutive games with 445+ passing yards and 4+ passing TDs since at least 1970 … part of an offensive line that allowed just one sack in the AFC Championship @ KC (1/30/22), helping Cincinnati advance to its first Super Bowl in over 30 years.
2020: Started all 10 games he appeared in at left tackle … helped block for Joe Burrow to throw for 300+ passing yards in three consecutive games (Games 2-4), becoming just the third Bengals QB since at least 1970 to accomplish that feat … opened holes for Joe Mixon to run for 151 yards and two TDs on 25 carries (6.0 avg.) in a win vs. Jax (10/4) … helped block for Burrow in his first career 400-yard game as he completed 35-of-47 pass attempts for 406 yards and three TDs vs. Cle (10/25).
2019: Spent his rookie season on the Physically Unable to Perform List (shoulder).
Started all 44 games played in three years (2016-18) at Alabama … played in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game all three years, winning the national title in 2017 … earned unanimous first team All-American honors (Walter Camp, the FWAA, Associated Press, The Sporting News and the AFCA), was named to the All-SEC first team and won the SEC Jacobs Blocking Trophy (presented to the conference's top offensive lineman) as a junior in 2018; started all 15 games at LT and helped open holes for the nation's third-highest ranked scoring offense (45.6 points per game) and sixth-highest ranked total offense (522.0 yards per game); part of an offensive line that allowed just 1.0 sack per game, the eighth fewest nationally and the fewest in the SEC … earned third team All-American honors and first-team All-SEC honors from the Associated Press as a sophomore in 2017 after he started all 14 games at LT including the National Championship win over Georgia; helped Alabama run for 300+ yards in four games … started all 15 games as a true freshman in 2016 at RT and was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team by the conference coaches while earning second team All-SEC honors from the Associated Press; helped the Tide rank first in the SEC in scoring offense (38.8 ppg) and paved the way for 11 100+ rushing yards performances (QB Jalen Hurts – 4, RB Damien Harris – 4, RB Bo Scarborough – 2, RB Josh Jacobs – 1).
Attended Folsom (CA) High School and played under current Stanford head coach Troy Taylor … rated as a five-star recruit, the sixth-highest ranked offensive tackle in the country and third-highest ranked player in California by 247Sports … helped protect current Bengals QB Jake Browning at Folsom H.S. as he won back-to-back California Gatorade High School Player of the Year awards, set California records in completions (1,191), passing yards (16,775) and passing TDs (229) and established the national record for TD passes in a season (91) … teammates with current Cardinals LB Mack Wilson Sr. at Alabama … loves to cook and first found the hobby at Alabama where he sought advice from the team nutritionist and chefs, read cookbooks, and watched hours of Instagram and YouTube videos to hone in his culinary skills … wears #73 in honor of Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Thomas … has a daughter, Pia.
