Chance Warmack

Cooper and Warmack became the first guards to be selected in the top-10 of the same draft since Dave Cadigan and Eric Moore in 1988.

Despite playing left guard in college, he was moved to right guard with the Titans.

Chance Warmack (born September 14, 1991) is a former American football guard.

Not since Chris Naeole in 1997 had a guard been selected in the top-10 of an NFL draft, but Warmack was considered to have a chance.

ESPN draft analyst Todd McShay considered Warmack the best guard prospect he's seen since Steve Hutchinson, who went 17th overall to the Seattle Seahawks in the 2001 NFL Draft.

NFL Network analyst and NBC commentator Mike Mayock considered him the best football player in the draft.

Considered a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Warmack was listed as the No. 20 offensive guard in the nation in 2009.

He chose Alabama over offers from Arkansas, Rutgers, Auburn, and South Carolina.

Warmack graduated early from high school and enrolled in the University of Alabama in January 2009, and played for coach Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide football team from 2009 to 2012.

After participating in spring football practice, he served as a backup to Barrett Jones and played in 5 games as a true freshman.

As a sophomore, Warmack replaced All-American Mike Johnson in the starting lineup and opened all 13 contests at left guard.

As a junior in 2011, he started 13 more games and helped Alabama win the 2012 BCS National Championship Game over Louisiana State, while earning 2nd team All-SEC honors.

After weighing his options to enter the 2012 NFL Draft, Warmack decided to return to Alabama for his final year of eligibility.

Prior to his senior season, he received numerous individual accolades, being on multiple preseason award watch lists and being named to Sports Illustrated's preseason All-American team.

Warmack started all 13 games for the Crimson Tide as a senior in 2012, on his way to winning his third national championship title in four years.

He graduated in December 2012 with a degree in communication studies.

He was drafted by the Tennessee Titans tenth overall in the 2013 NFL Draft.

He played college football at Alabama, where he was a three time National Champion and earned unanimous All-American honors during his senior year.

Warmack spent his first four seasons in the NFL with Titans.

Warmack was considered the best interior linemen available in the 2013 NFL Draft.

Warmack was selected in the first round as the 10th overall pick by the Tennessee Titans in the 2013 NFL Draft, becoming the second guard picked in the draft, behind Jonathan Cooper.

During his rookie year in 2013, he started all sixteen games for the Titans, who finished with a 7–9 record.

Pro Football Focus gave him positive grades for four games in the season.

In 2014, Warmack remained the starting right guard, starting all sixteen games in the season.

The Titans finished with a league-worst 2–14 record.

Despite this, Pro Football Focus rated him positively in six consecutive games beginning with the Week 11 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

His plus-12.8 PFF rating from Weeks 11–15 was second in the league only to the Philadelphia Eagles' Evan Mathis.

Warmack started all sixteen games for the Titans in 2015, who finished with another league-worst record of 3–13.

He was a starter for his first three seasons before missing most of the 2016 season due to injury.

On May 2, 2016, the Titans declined the fifth-year option on Warmack's contract.

Warmack started the first two games of the season.

After the Titans' Week 2 win against the Detroit Lions, Warmack was placed on injured reserve with a hand injury

on September 21, 2016.

He then signed with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017, playing with the team for two seasons as a backup and winning Super Bowl LIII.

After not playing for any team in 2019, Warmack signed with the Seattle Seahawks in 2020 but opted out of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Warmack attended Westlake High School in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was an all-state offensive lineman.

For his freshman and sophomore year, he was teammates with quarterback Cam Newton.

During his senior year, Warmack was credited with an average of seven pancake blocks per game.

Westlake finished the season 6–5 with a first-round playoff loss to Douglasville – Chapel Hill High School.

Warmack earned a Georgia Top 150 selection by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Tom Lemming listed him as an All-American in his Prep Football Report.