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Payton Turner

EDGE · Houston · age 22.3
Draftanomics scout sheet
Board model
Generated August 6, 2026
Draftanomics pick
#171
Day 3
Bust probability
15%
Low risk
Actual NFL pick
#28
NOR
Consensus rank
#74
23 sources

Why this projection

+1.0 ≈ pushed pick ~25 spots earlier; −1.0 ≈ ~25 spots later
charting: average depth of target allowed, career avg-0.06
Boards ranking him top-100+0.05
Athletic testing+0.04
High-school recruit grade-0.03
Pre-draft consensus-0.02
Positional consistency-0.02
Age at draft+0.01
charting total career snaps-0.01

Pre-draft consensus (24 sources)

ESPN Scouts Inc.#73
Action Network (Matthew Freedman)#69
Behind The Steel Curtain#104
Bleacher Report#108
Bleeding Green Nation (Ben Natan)#68
Blue Chip Scouting (Nick Price)#68
CBS (Chris Trapasso)#43
College Football News (Pete Fiutak)#76
Draft Ace (Ryan Mccrystal)#49
Draftplex (Jason Pruett)#58
Drafttek#102
Eds Football (Kevin Hanson)#63
Nbc Sports (Thor Nystrom)#70
Pewter Report (Jon Ledyard)#34
Pigskin Nut (Austin Smith)#71
SI (John Shipley)#61

Active flags & events

  • Payton Turner (NO) listed as Out for week 5 of 2024 with Knee.
    nflverse injuries · week 5 · 2026-05-21

NFL outcomes (so far)

Seasons
4
Avg snap share
14%
2nd-deal AAV
$2.5M

Closest historical comps

PlayerDraftYear 1 grade (of 20)Arc
Brian Burns2019 · #162.7Starter
Yannick Ngakoue2016 · #696.1Starter
Josh Sweat2018 · #1300.8Starter
Emmanuel Ogbah2016 · #325.2Starter
Marcus Davenport2018 · #146.1Contributor
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