Jedrick Wills

Career Transactions

Originally drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (10^th overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Awards/Honors

• 2020 NFL Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Week for Week 10, becoming just the fourth offensive lineman to win the award since its inception in 2002 and first since 2013.
• Named to PFWA's 2020 NFL All-Rookie team.

Career Transactions

Originally drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the first round (10^th overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft.

Awards/Honors

• 2020 NFL Pepsi Zero Sugar Rookie of the Week for Week 10, becoming just the fourth offensive lineman to win the award since its inception in 2002 and first since 2013.
• Named to PFWA's 2020 NFL All-Rookie team.

Key Notes

• Started eight games before a knee injury ended his 2023 season.
• Started all 17 games at LT in 2022 and helped the Browns compile 2,490 rushing yards, the third-highest total in team history and most since 1963 (2,639).
• Opened holes for RB Nick Chubb who has ranked among the NFL's top rushers, including finishing third in rushing yards in 2022 and second in 2021.
• Part of an offensive line that aided the Browns to lead the NFL in rushing average in 2021 with a 5.09 mark, the highest average by a Browns team since 1966.
• Paved the way for the Browns to finish third in the NFL in rush yards (2,374) and fifth in yards per carry (4.80 avg.) in 2020. Helped the Browns record four games with at least 200 rushing yards, their most in a season since 1978.
• Helped Chubb (1,067) and Kareem Hunt (841) become the only pair of teammates to each record 840-plus rushing yards in 2020, highlighted in a win against Houston on Nov. 15, when Chubb (126) and Hunt (104) became the first Browns to each record 100 yards rushing in the same game since 1966.
• Helped anchor the Crimson Tide's offensive line that ranked third nationally, allowing just 0.92 sacks per game, surrendering only 12 sacks in 406 pass attempts during the 2019 season.
• Part of Alabama's offense that ranked No. 2 nationally in scoring (47.2 ppg), third in passing (342.2 ypg) and sixth in total offense (510.8 ypg). Started 29 games at right tackle, including 28 straight to end his career.

Personal

• Native of Lexington, Ky. and attended Lafayette High School.
• Selected to the Under Armour All-America Game, the only player from the state of Kentucky to be invited.
• First team All-State selection as a senior and a second-team honoree in 2016 by the (Louisville) Courier-Journal.

Beyond Football

• Hosted the inaugural Jed Wills Winter Blast during the 2020 holiday season. Wills paid for a new car for one woman in need, as well as rent for a family that lost its home in a fire and $50,000 of toys, gifts and cash to five families in the Cleveland area.
• Supported the NFL's My Cause My Cleats by representing the Cleveland Animal Protective League, whose mission is to foster compassion and end suffering for animals relinquished by their guardians, animals that are rescued from abuse or neglect, and stray or abandonment. Wills adopted a dog in the summer of 2022.