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Scout’s Eye with Matt Williamson: How much have they improved?

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Matt Williamson. How's it going? Things are good. I wanted to dig more into Hoffman. We did talk about him quite a bit yesterday, two days ago. I really, really like this edition, as you probably know by now.

0:22.1

But wanted to dig in. I found some more out about him that I think for the most part you'll

0:27.0

like. So, first of all, he, I mentioned he plays more center than guard, probably better

0:35.3

center than guard, but he's very capable of both. And in a

0:38.6

perfect world, if he's your fourth interior o' lineman, I think you're in really good shape.

0:43.2

What I didn't know about him, though, until just today, is he really struggles to keep weight on.

0:50.9

Like, he's not a natural 310-pound man. You know, like, he's one of these guys that

0:57.9

when I bet when he retires, if you see him three years after retirement, he's like 260. You know what I

1:04.8

mean? Like, it doesn't look like an O. Lyman. So he's a lighter player. Now, that does not detract from his

1:14.2

physicality, his nastiness and aggression in particular. But it's just not what Dallas wants.

1:21.7

So Dallas used a third round pick in 2004 on Cooper Beebe.

1:29.2

He's their starting center.

1:32.8

And guys, he's like a 330 pound center.

1:35.2

He might be the heaviest center in the league.

1:37.5

They already had Tyler Smith,

1:39.5

who was a first round pick in 2022.

1:43.4

He's a 340 pound tackle that is converted to guard, massive.

1:47.1

And then last year, they used the first round pick on another guard,

1:50.8

Tyler Booker out of Alabama,

1:53.2

who's also like 345.

1:55.7

I mean, like, they have to have the biggest interior O line in the entire league, which of course is by design.

2:03.7

That's what they are looking for with this coaching staff, the post-McCarthy coaching staff.

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