Michael Hershey C Maryland |
NFL Draft Profile & Scouting Report

Scouting Report: Weaknesses

• Run-game output ranked near the bottom of these centers.
• Light at 295 with the anchor concerns the weight implies.
• Washington and Indiana fronts produced his two thinnest tapes.
• Twelve starts of total experience against modest interior competition.
• The stopwatch offers no margin; every protection win is pure technique.

Scouting Report: Summary

Maryland handed a sophomore the pivot and the quarterback stayed clean: Hershey started all twelve games, kept a true-freshman passer unsacked through the season's first month, and anchored a line that allowed nine sacks all year, tied for third-fewest in the country. His pass-blocking tape ranks among the better marks in this group, earned with timing and placement rather than mass, and the academic honors fill out a high-processing profile.

The build sets the ceiling questions. At 295 pounds the run blocking ranked near the bottom of these centers, Washington and Indiana's fronts produced his thinnest tapes, and average timed movement means the protection wins come entirely from technique, with no athletic margin when the technique slips. Twelve starts against a schedule light on NFL interiors keeps the proof standard modest.

Two full seasons remain to add the mass and the power numbers, and protection-first sophomores with his snap intelligence usually trend up rather than sideways. For the 2027 class he profiles as an undrafted developmental center carrying one real, bankable skill, though the more honest read is that this is a 2028 name running his audition a year early. A heavier, more physical junior season would start moving the projection immediately, and the protection baseline gives him something real to build it on.