Dorian Strong

No. 43 · 2nd season

Sixth-round pick, injured start, still on the roster

Most sixth-round picks are already fighting to stay in the building when they're healthy. Dorian Strong is doing it hurt.

Strong came into the league this spring as a 2025 sixth-round selection — the kind of draft position that comes with no guarantees and very little margin. Sixth-rounders are expected to prove themselves immediately; an injury in that window can end the conversation before it starts.

Strong is dealing with an injury right now, but the team has kept him on the roster anyway. That's not nothing. Roster spots at the bottom of the depth chart are not held out of sentiment.

What happens next is the whole story — whether he gets healthy, whether he gets a real look, whether the team's patience turns into something.

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Dorian Strong

Sixth-round pick, injured start, still on the roster

One high school season. One scholarship offer. One shot his mother needed him to take.

Three years at Alabama. Thirteen snaps. Then he started over.

He cold-called Ohio State. The coach who answered left before he played a snap.