Jackson also has a good set of hands, which proves rather effective in pass rush situations. While this was particularly noticeable last season, he has been less impressive in this area this season.

Landon Jackson's bend, like his hand technique, was notably strong at the end of his 2023 season, almost qualifying as excellent for a player of his size. However, this aspect of his game wasn't as prominently featured in his recent performances. The ability to bend is crucial for edge rushers, as it allows them to turn the corner quickly and efficiently while maintaining balance and leverage. If Landon can reemphasize this skill, it will significantly enhance his pass-rushing effectiveness and make him a more formidable defender.

Is it the fault of the defensive system that has changed this season in Arkansas and has required him to read much more and therefore be less explosive, which in turn allows fewer opportunities for direct pass rush and therefore impacts both the opportunities for us to see his Bend and his handwork in action?

I don't know about that, but the fact is that Landon hasn't impressed me this season with his ability at Bend and his hands, unlike 2023. So I'm keeping this as one of his strong points in view of what he showed last season, but it's something to keep an eye on.

Another good point for Landon is that he reads the game quite well. Most of the time, he reads pretty quickly, pretty well, and what's more, he's able to do this reading while moving forward and therefore compressing the pocket, which is clearly not something everyone can do. In my opinion, he has improved even further this season, with even more reading to be done thanks to the defensive system used by Arkansas.

Landon also has a large radius on certain tackles, where at first glance he seems to be a long way from the ball carrier, but in the end makes the tackle. Once again, his impressive size and good reach are not to blame.

As I quickly mentioned earlier, Landon tends more towards a Power rusher archetype than a Speed rusher specializing in the Pass rush, and while this inevitably means that he's eager to chase down the opposing QB, he's willing and diligent in the face of the Run Game. You can see that he takes pleasure in defending the run well, and that's a really good point if you hope to be a starter in the NFL.
Power rush means power under the hood, and Landon's got it, especially with his Punch ability, which is very powerful indeed, and which he clearly doesn't use enough for my taste.

He could create many more opportunities for big plays in both pass rush and run stop situations, thanks to his big punch and impressive reach.

On the weak side of Landon Jackson's game, the first thing to watch out for, given his size, is his leverage and the fact that he constantly has to be careful not to play too high. With his size, it's easy to get into trouble, and during his university career, he was repeatedly put in trouble when he got up too high.

It should also be pointed out that Landon is still very much a Raw player in terms of his ability as a pure pass rusher. While he does indeed know how to vary his attacks, Landon's arsenal of techniques is pretty poor compared to other prospects, and he often finds himself using the same moves.
In the same way, you can feel his Raw side when you see his lack of counter moves. Indeed, Landon is sometimes too wait-and-see on his technique passage when he fails to get past his opposite number with his first move. If we come back to the fact that Landon's range of moves is still too limited to enable him to use a counter move automatically, the fact is that he takes too long to try something else, and that's when he does try something else.
As you can see, there's still a lot of work to be done with Jackson before he becomes a constant, lethal threat in pass rush situations.

Another point that bothers me a little about Landon Jackson, and which could have changed his value completely if I'd seen any progress this season, is his glaring lack of explosiveness. For all his qualities, Landon is far from being the most explosive player of the crop in this position.

Although he manages to compensate for this lack of explosiveness by gaining a lot of ground with each stride thanks to his great size, we've seen that a lack of explosive acceleration can be a real hindrance in a league as physical and full of athletic freaks as the NFL.

Just look at the early years of Tyree Wilson (Edge, Raiders), who was also an extremely promising prospect, As I'll explain, it was a point I highlighted last season and on which I was waiting to see real progress in order to assess Landon's ability to become a threat on the Edge. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the slightest improvement on this point, not helped once again by the Razorbacks' change of defense.

There's another point on which I haven't seen enough progress from him against the big CFB teams, and that's his still too random ability to defend opposing double teams. While he is sometimes capable of completely winning his rep and destroying the double team, Landon is just as capable of getting really roughed up at times. When you look at his player profile, which is likely to put him in this kind of situation on a more or less regular basis, this will clearly be something to work on once he's in the pros, so that he can at least dominate this aspect of the game and then develop more serenely as a pass rusher.

Finally, as I wrote in the strengths section, we need to look again at his ability to drop into the zone. While Landon is indeed capable of doing this, there's still a lot of work to be done to make this aspect of his game mature enough to use it against NFL-level offenses.

While Landon doesn't have too much trouble dropping into his zone, or reading the game as we saw in the strengths section, it's his decision-making once he's in his zone that's more difficult for him. What's more, here again his lack of explosiveness makes itself felt when he has to re-attack a player who threatens his zone, or once the ball has been sent to a player for whom he is responsible.