2027 NFL Draft Board

He was the nation’s top-ranked edge recruit in the 2024 class. As a true freshman he had 6.5 sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss against Southeastern Conference tackles, third among every freshman in the country, and a preseason All-American selection followed before 2025. A back injury then cut into his sophomore season, 4.5 sacks and 12 tackles for loss in 11 games, and the same injury will keep him out of the 2026 opener. The frame has not changed, 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, and neither has the get-off that made him the top recruit at the position. Edge rusher is a premium position, and the freshman tape is still the best evidence in the class of what he can do.

More than 1,100 receiving yards for the second straight season after a 1,315-yard, 15-touchdown freshman year, with more than 2,500 yards and 27 touchdowns across his first two seasons. He is the best receiver prospect of the decade on the evidence of production against the strongest schedule in the country, at an age when most receivers are still in high school weight rooms.

The starting left tackle for a Southeastern Conference program with the frame the league drafts in the top ten. Tackles with his length who have started in that conference do not last past the middle of the first round.

3,610 yards, 32 touchdowns and a completion rate of 77 percent that led the nation, with a passer rating of 177.5, in his first season as a starter. Fourth in the Heisman vote. Fifth in Ohio State history for yards in a season and eighth for touchdowns, at 20. The accuracy is the best in the class by a distance; the frame is the only question.

3,565 yards, 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions on 71.8 percent completions, a College Football Playoff semifinal and the Orange Bowl’s offensive most valuable player, then a decision to return rather than enter the 2026 draft. A full season of that production against Big Ten defences, with the arm and the frame the league drafts first.

Twelve sacks and 15.5 tackles for loss in 12 games, leading the Southeastern Conference in sacks as a sophomore, and 21 sacks across his first two seasons. His 12 sacks tie for the eighth-most in a Texas season since the school began counting them in 1975. The best pass rusher in the class, at the second-most valuable position on the field.

3,163 yards, 26 touchdowns and seven interceptions in his first full season as the starter, with more than 400 yards on the ground. The completion rate sat under 60 percent. The size, the arm and the mobility are the league’s template.

Backup on Division II national championship teams in 2021 and 2022, then the winning starter himself in 2024: 51 total touchdowns, 2,925 passing yards and 1,019 rushing, and three touchdown passes plus two more on the ground in a 49-14 win over Valdosta State in the title game. He transferred to Ole Miss for 2025, did not take over the starting job until the fourth game, and still passed for 3,937 yards and 22 touchdowns against 3 interceptions, with 527 more yards on the ground, for the third-most total offense in a season in Ole Miss history and a top-five national QBR. He will be 24 on draft day, five years and two schools after he arrived at Ferris State a zero-star recruit. The production is a champion’s; the age is what it cost to get there.

Five interceptions and seven pass breakups in 10 games as a true sophomore, allowing a passer rating of 45.1 when targeted. Length, ball production and a full season of shutting down one side of the field for a playoff program.

1,567 rushing yards and 24 rushing touchdowns at 5.1 a carry in the Southeastern Conference, with 29 catches, as a true sophomore. The most productive back in the class in the hardest conference to run in.

All-Atlantic Coast Conference as a sophomore, with four sacks, two interceptions and a forced fumble from an off-ball linebacker spot. The rare linebacker who produces as a rusher and in coverage at 20.

The interior anchor of a Southeastern Conference defence at 20, a former top recruit whose disruption has outrun his box score. Interior linemen with his first step go in the top fifteen whatever the sack total says.

Eleven first downs allowed across 744 coverage snaps in two seasons, which is the coverage record of a cornerback at a safety’s position, with two interceptions and three breakups in 2025. Georgia’s best defensive back since the 2022 class.

834 yards and seven touchdowns as a sophomore for a Southeastern Conference offence, with seven drops that are the one mark against him. Size, speed and a full season as the first read in the conference the league trusts most.

Four interceptions on limited snaps, with 15 completions allowed on 35 targets, as a rotational corner who has not yet started a full season.

865 yards and eight touchdowns as a 17-year-old freshman in the Southeastern Conference in 2024, then a second season as the first option for Alabama. Born February 9, 2007, he will be 20 on draft day with two SEC seasons already behind him.

1,170 rushing yards and eight touchdowns at 5.3 a carry, with 33 catches for 210 yards, as a true sophomore in the Southeastern Conference. The size of a three-down back with the receiving to stay on the field.

More than 3,900 passing yards at 8.9 an attempt on 67 percent completions as a sophomore, the most productive passer in the class by volume. The competition was the American Conference, which is the discount.

A completion rate allowed of 28.9 percent, with five breakups and an interception, at 6-foot-4. Corners with that length who allow fewer than three completions in ten are drafted on the first night.

Single-digit pressures allowed across a full season protecting the quarterback taken first overall in April, on a team that won the national title. Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year in 2025. Returned for a fifth season rather than enter the 2026 draft. The age is the discount; the record of pass protection is the best in the class.

A two-year starter at left tackle for Colorado as a true freshman and sophomore, now protecting a Southeastern Conference quarterback at LSU. The season against SEC edge rushers is the one the league will draft on.

The centre of a playoff defence at 20, with the size and range the league now asks of the position and a forced fumble, an interception and two sacks in 2025.

More than 1,400 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns in his first Southeastern Conference season after transferring from Louisiana-Monroe, at 5.7 a carry. The third of three true-sophomore backs in the conference who each cleared 1,100 yards.

765 defensive snaps as a sophomore, four sacks and two batted passes from the interior. Volume like that at 20, in that conference, is a starter’s workload a year before the draft.

3,600 passing yards on 65 percent completions with 16 touchdowns and six interceptions in his first Atlantic Coast Conference season, after transferring from Tulane. The decision-making shows in the interception total; the touchdown total is the thing to grow.

968 yards and eight touchdowns on 61 catches in 12 games as the outside target for a Southeastern Conference offence, at 6-foot-5. The size and the touchdown rate carry him into the first round.

Five sacks as a sophomore at 6-foot-6 and 222 pounds. The frame is the pick: he has 20 pounds to add and the length the position pays for.

A former top interior recruit who started for a Miami defence that produced two first-round linemen in April. The tools are first-round; the production has to arrive this season.

A starter at both guard and tackle for the national champions of 2024 and the 2025 playoff team, with the versatility the league drafts as insurance. The best interior prospect in the class.

More than 1,100 yards on 61 catches as a sophomore in the Big Ten, at 6-foot-6. Eighteen yards a catch from a receiver that size is a first-round profile whatever the school on the jersey.

Five interceptions as a sophomore on the back end of a playoff defence. Ball production at that rate with that length is the safety profile the league takes on the first night.

Fifty-three catches for nearly 700 yards in the Southeastern Conference as a sophomore in an offence that gave him less than his talent warranted. The size and the contested catching are the pick.