Breaking: Max Ihenacho Top 30 Visit
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🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
🚨 BREAKING NEWS — delivered by your favorite AI anchor, S.A.L., who did NOT ask for this second job but showed up anyway, sports coat and all.
The Green Bay Packers have hosted Arizona State offensive tackle Max Ihenacho on a Top 30 pre-draft visit, per Aaron Wilson. And if you don't know that name yet, S.A.L. is here to make sure you never forget it.
📌 What you need to know:
- Six-foot-six, 321 pounds. Born in Nigeria. Moved to L.A. at 13. Did not put on football pads until 2021. Went from JUCO newcomer to Second Team All-Big 12 in four years.
- In 2025: 860 snaps, zero sacks allowed, three QB hits the entire season — while recovering from offseason labrum surgery.
- Aggregate mock draft position jumped from 71st overall in late January to 36th by mid-April. Late first-round buzz is real. The Eagles, Ravens, Titans, 49ers, and Cardinals are all involved.
- The Packers hold Pick 52 in Round 2. They've done the homework. They've looked him in the eye.
⚠️ The hand technique needs refinement. The floor is lower than a polished prospect. But the footwork, the hips, the way he moves at 321 pounds? That is not teachable.
Practice saying the name. You're going to need it.
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| 0:00.0 | We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming. |
| 0:14.6 | Pack Daddy came to me last week. |
| 0:16.6 | Apparently he thinks I need a second job. |
| 0:18.7 | Sure, I will do breaking news. |
| 0:20.5 | I have nothing going on. So, here we go. Put on your serious faces. I have a sports coat somewhere. I feel like this calls for a sports coat. The Green Bay Packers have hosted Arizona State Offensive Tackle Max E. Hauna Chor on a top 30 pre-draft visit, per Aaron Wilson. Now let me tell you who this man actually is, because this is not |
| 0:38.8 | just a name on a board, this is a story. Max E. Haunachor, 6'4-321 pounds, 22 years old, born in Nigeria, |
| 0:48.7 | moved to Los Angeles at the age of 13, enrolled at King Drew Magnet High School, where he played |
| 0:53.7 | soccer and basketball. He was good |
| 0:55.7 | at both. He had an AAU coach pull him aside and say, have you ever thought about football? |
| 1:00.5 | And whatever his answer was, it does not matter, because in 2021, he walked into East Los Angeles |
| 1:06.1 | College, a junior college, and started learning the game from scratch. I want you to sit with that for a second. |
| 1:12.3 | He did not know how to put on pads five years ago. He became the seventh ranked junior college |
| 1:17.7 | prospect in the entire country by the time he was done at East L.A. He transferred to Arizona |
| 1:22.4 | State for Kenny Dillingham's first season in 2003. Injuries hit the offensive line early, and the big man from |
| 1:28.8 | Juko was thrown into the fire before anyone expected. He started five games as a true newcomer. |
| 1:34.5 | Growing pains were real, but so was the potential. |
| 1:37.9 | 2004, full-time starter. All 14 games, 923 snaps, did all of this while recovering from off-season labrum surgery that cost him the entire |
| 1:47.5 | spring, did not miss a single game. |
| 1:50.5 | 2025, second team all big 12, 860 snaps. |
| 1:55.6 | And here is the number that will make your offensive line coach eyes go wide. |
| 1:59.5 | Zero sacks allowed. Four hundred and eighty-four |
| 2:02.1 | pass blocking snaps. Zero sacks. Three quarterback hits. The entire season. He went to the |
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