From now until the 2026 NFL Draft, we will scout and create profiles for as many prospects as possible, examining their strengths, weaknesses, and what they can bring to an NFL franchise. These players could be potential top-10 picks, down to Day 3 selections, and priority undrafted free agents. Today, a scouting report on Clemson RB Adam Randall.
#8 ADAM RANDALL/RB, CLEMSON (SENIOR) – 6033, 232 pounds
Measurements
Player Ht/Wt Hand Size Arm Length Wingspan
Adam Randall 6033/232 9 3/4 32 3/8 N/A
40-Yard Dash 10-Yard Dash Short Shuttle 3-Cone
4.50 1.60 4.53 N/A
Broad Jump Vertical Bench Press
10’4″ 37 26
THE GOOD
– Showed improvement throughout year after only playing running back for a year
– Solid athletic ability
– Runs with squared shoulders
– Good contact balance to run through tackles
– Strong lower body play strength to run through diving tackles
– Wins with vision
– Sets up blocks well
– Good vision in open field
– Falls forward for extra yards
– Has receiving ability due to history at the position
– Works best between the tackles in inside zone
THE BAD
– Has severe problems in pass protection
– Bad technique in pass protection
– Does not have elite burst
– Lacks short-area quickness
– Struggles to break tackles when not running full speed
– Takes a while to reach top speed
– Does not create positive plays when blocking is not good
– Average long speed
– Loses concentration and drops check downs and tosses
STATS
– Started 13 games across 1 season at Clemson as a running back. Transitioned from wide receiver in the summer of 2025; started 7 games across 3 seasons at Clemson as a wide receiver
– 2025: 168 rushes for 814 yards and 10 touchdowns. Caught 36 passes for 254 yards and 3 touchdowns
– Wide receiver stats (3 seasons): 48 receptions for 533 yards and 2 touchdowns
INJURY HISTORY
– 2025: Dealt with minor knee injury, but did not miss any time
– 2024: Suffered a stress fracture in his toe, which required a screw insertion, causing him to miss one game
– 2023: Broke left hand
– 2022: Broke right hand
– 2022: Tore his ACL during spring practice in his freshman year, limiting his availability early in the 2022 season
– Has played through two broken bones in his hand and the toe injury
BACKGROUND
– Turning 22 in July of 2026
– Named a Permanent Team Captain by his teammates in 2025
– Selected to the AFCA Good Works Team in 2025
– Was a Pop Warner Award Finalist in 2025
– Two-time ACC Honor Roll Selection (2022 and 2024)
– Four-star prospect out of Myrtle Beach High School in South Carolina
– One of five finalists for Mr. Football in South Carolina
– Ranked the No. 4 prospect in South Carolina
– Won a state championship in 2018
– Ran the 100-meter dash for track in high school
– Went to the P.A.W Journey’s service trip to South Africa in the Spring of 2024
– Thanks his family for investing in him regarding football, citing a time where he lost his gloves at a camp, resulting in his dad running to a Dicks to get a new pair
TAPE BREAKDOWN
Adam Randall is a team leader who will do whatever he can to help the team win, such as switching positions in the summer of 2025. At the start of the season, his newness to the position showed up often, mostly with his struggles in pass protection. He struggled to understand his assignment early in the year, which was growing pains, but as the year went along and he knew what to do, he lacked the technique to win. He did not have the aggressiveness or pad level, as shown on this play.
Randall wins with his smooth athleticism and vision, which improved as the year progressed. He did a good job being patient and setting up blocks, and when there was a hole to hit, he could do it. However, his burst is just average, so he needs a hole to be open for a while for him to get through.
He is best used as an inside zone player, so he can set up blocks and use his vision to win. When he gets to the second level, he has good contact balance to break tackles, supported by his square shoulders. This run concept is iso, and he sets up his blocks well to create an explosive.
While he is a smart player between the tackles, he lacks the elite speed needed to create explosive plays consistently. It takes him a long time to reach his top speed, which is a red flag for the NFL, where the speed is much faster.
When he gets to his top speed, he can make people miss in the open field, but his short-area ability to get beyond the line of scrimmage will struggle if the blocking is not perfect. He cannot juke or jump-cut his way out of trouble, as this play shows.
What makes me optimistic about Randall is his inexperience playing running back and his growth throughout the season. At the start of 2025, he was running basic run plays and struggled due to his mediocre athleticism.
You can tell he started to understand how to play the position more as the year went along, and Clemson could start running more complex schemes. On this play, he sets up the blocks to perfection and scores a touchdown on his best run of the season.
Randall needs some fine-tuning in his game, including improving his concentration. He has receiving capabilities because that was his old position, but he lacks the elite backfield receiving ability due to concentration issues.
Clemson put him in a position to get the ball in space and get moving, but he struggled to reel it in. I think he was worried about defenders flying to him, and he would look away from the ball before securing it, either causing an incompletion or a fumble.
CONCLUSION
Adam Randall is an experienced athlete who will do what he can to help the team win, but lacks the elite athletic traits to be an NFL starting running back. I think he can succeed in being part of a committee, but he really needs to improve his pass protection for a coach to trust him in the game.
The thing he has going for him is his inexperience playing the position, and teams will draft him to mold him into the player they want. He already has good vision, but struggles to get to that part of the run if he cannot win with short-area quickness.
NFL Projection: Early Day 3
Steelers Depot Grade: 6.6 (Pure Backup)
Grade Range: 6.4-7.1
Games Watched: vs LSU (2025), at Georgia Tech (2025), vs SMU (2025), vs Duke (2025), at Louisville (2025)
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