Background
Landon Robinson grew up in Fairlawn, Ohio, and attended Copley High School, where he lettered in four sports, football, baseball, wrestling, and track, captained the football team as both a junior and senior, earned two-time All-State honors, and was a two-time district qualifier in wrestling at 220 pounds. His father, Lance Robinson, was a gymnast at Kent State who owns a gym where Landon started tumbling as a young child. A two-star recruit whose only FBS offer came from Navy, he originally committed to Lehigh before the Midshipmen entered late. His appointment to Annapolis was nearly derailed when a childhood peanut allergy diagnosis flagged him as medically ineligible, since all midshipmen eat together and military meal packages regularly contain peanuts with no substitutions. His family sought a second opinion using an allergen component blood test and a graduated oral challenge supervised by an allergist, which revealed the original result was a cross-reaction with birch tree pollen and not a true clinical allergy; Navy reinstated the offer a month later. He arrived in Annapolis in 2022 listed at 6-0 and 220 pounds as an outside linebacker, and did not play a snap as a freshman. Coaches moved him to nose guard the following spring, and he underwent an extreme weight-gain regimen, pushing past 300 pounds before being trimmed. He debuted as a sophomore in 2023 with 28 tackles and 4.0 sacks off the bench, became a full-time starter as a junior with 61 tackles, 5.5 TFL, 4.0 sacks, and 2 forced fumbles earning First-Team All-AAC, and then dominated as a senior co-captain in 2025 with 64 tackles, 8.5 TFL, 6.5 sacks, and 34 pressures, earning AAC Defensive Player of the Year, the first Navy player ever to win the award, and First-Team All-American from the AP, FWAA, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Phil Steele, becoming the first Navy defensive player named AP First-Team All-American since Chet Moeller in 1975. His practice dominance led Navy to institute "The Landon Robinson Rule," requiring him to simply turn and run away after penetrating the backfield so the offense could finish its reps. Bruce Feldman named him to The Athletic's Freaks List three consecutive years, climbing from No. 92 to No. 48 to No. 13, citing a 665-pound squat, 465-pound bench, 350-pound power clean, and 33-inch vertical. He majors in cyber operations with a 3.36 GPA, plans to commission as a Marine Corps or Naval Aviation officer, and has declared for the 2026 NFL Draft.
Physical Attributes
Robinson is an insanely good athlete for a DT. He is also an insanely small DT. He holds up decently well with strength in the trenches, and uses his quickness, agility, and speed to mitigate poor matchups the best he can.
Data and Tape Analysis
If you are unfamiliar with my DT radar charts, you can find more information here
Playing against a lower level of competition than most prospects, as well as being very undersized, you want Robinson's radar chart to look absolutely ridiculous. Sadly, it does not, rather just very good. Without that level of dominance, it is hard to imagine an impactful future in the NFL, unless something changes.
Robinson does a better job than you would expect from someone his size in the run game. The results are inconsistent, and fluctuate between being blown off the ball, and holding his ground. When free, he fires to the ball carrier quickly and does a decent job at getting them to the ground.
The entire pass rushing game of Robinson is centered on his speed. He can get some surprising pushback in bull rushes, but he mostly hunts for gaps. With how fast he is, he can fly through them and linemen in retreat. One area where his size comes in advantage is splitting double teams, where he can get super skinny, and bend under the four outstreched arms of the blockers before flying at the QB.
Grade and Outlook
I was really hoping to be blown away by Robinson when watching. The commitment service academy players need to have without also being an athlete is so difficult to find. So you want to root for them whenever you get the chance, but at the end of the day, you can't teach size, and Robinson does not have it. Somone will take a late flier on him and see if he can make the step up as a rotational piece, or in my opinion, try him at fullback.
Grade: 3.5 (Late 5th Rounder / Early 6th Rounder)
