The pre-draft evaluation on Solomon Thomas pegged him as an excellent run defender that needed to develop his pass rush skills. At best, he was the second coming of Michael Bennett; a penetrating one-gap force that teams could deploy across the defensive line depending on the situation. At worst? He’d end up a man without a country — too small for the interior, and too limited to be a force on the edge.
At Stanford Thomas excelled along the interior. He played, by his estimate, between the tackles about 85% of the time.