Domonique Orange is a defensive tackle and 2026 NFL Draft prospect who spent all four seasons of his collegiate career at Iowa State. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Orange was a four-star recruit in the 2022 class who chose the Cyclones over Arkansas, Florida State, and Texas A&M and became a cornerstone of the Ames defensive front. He appeared in all 12 games as a true freshman before expanding into a regular rotational role in 2023 with 16 tackles and 2.0 tackles for loss. His junior season in 2024 was his most productive to that point with 24 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and his first career sack, earning him an honorable mention All-Big 12 selection from coaches. As a senior in 2025 he started all 12 games, earned third-team All-Big 12 recognition, and won Bednarik National Player of the Week honors following a dominant performance against Iowa, finishing with 18 tackles and a pass batted on the season. He was named to Bruce Feldman's Freaks List heading into the 2025 season and earned an invitation to the Senior Bowl and the NFL Scouting Combine.
Measuring approximately 6 feet 2 inches and 322 pounds with 33 3/8-inch arms and 10 1/4-inch hands, Orange is built as a classic run-stuffing zero and one technique who brings exceptional functional strength, good first-step quickness, and excellent communication skills to the defensive front. He keeps a low pad level and uses his thick lower half to anchor and absorb double teams while keeping linebackers clean to flow to the football, the kind of space-eating value that does not always show up in statistical lines. His pass-rush production has been limited throughout his career and he projects almost exclusively as a two-down run defender at the next level without significant development of interior counters and hand use. Orange is projected as a late Day 2 to early Day 3 selection with immediate value as a run-stuffing rotational nose tackle in either a 3-4 or 4-3 scheme.
