Adam Trick sits 30th on the model, 184th in the room — a gap no other off-ball defender touches this cycle, despite a modest 15% bust rate. Trevor Goosby's model profile as the third overall prospect meets a room that's far colder, content to slot him ninth. Flip it for Nico Iamaleava: the room has him 15th, the model buries him at 76th, a stretch of daylight most quarterbacks never survive. Three different disagreements, three different reasons — this board isn't converging anytime soon.
Written by our models from the live board; every name and number checked
Day-1 starter ceiling. The class's franchise pieces.
Blue-chip WR ceiling. What the model likes: boards with him top-100, scout consensus, boards with him top-50.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · Schedule-adjusted production — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Leonard Moore plays corner like a matchup problem — long speed to run with verticals, quick feet to click and close, and a habit of baiting quarterbacks into throws he has no business getting to. The model slots him at No. 2 on the 2027 board, just ahead of the room's consensus at No. 5, and for a projected elite-tier corner, model and room are pointed the same direction.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · Schedule-adjusted production · HS recruit rating — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Trevor Goosby wins with length and violence in his hands, a blend that lets him anchor against power and still toss rushers off their spot once he's latched on. The model has him third overall, well clear of a No. 9 consensus, and both sides agree on the same conclusion: this is a blue-chip tackle after just one year starting at Texas.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · HS recruit rating — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Colin Simmons wins before the tackle can even set his hands — the first step gets him level immediately, and the bend that follows grades as elite in its own right. The model board has him at No. 4, two spots off a consensus No. 2, and here the two boards are reading from the same script. Texas already has him at 21 career sacks in two seasons, and the model's own tier call on him is elite.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · Schedule-adjusted production — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Jordan Seaton looks like a left tackle prospect built to anchor an offensive line for a decade, the rare blend of length and lateral quickness scouts don't stop talking about. The model has him at No. 5 on the 2027 board, tight with a consensus rank of 8 across 21 boards — this is one where the algorithm and the room are reading the same guy.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · HS recruit rating · Age — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Cam Coleman wins vertically before he wins anywhere else — a receiver who erases four yards of cushion in two strides and turns a footrace into a formality. The model's board has him at No. 6 for the 2027 class, four spots ahead of the room's consensus of No. 10 — real separation in rank that the model still labels aligned. Auburn couldn't feed him volume the way Texas now can, and he's spent two seasons proving he doesn't need volume to be dangerous.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · HS recruit rating — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Year-1 starter probability. First-round capital.
Dante Moore throws with a short, whippy release and layered touch to all three levels, the kind of structural passing prospect evaluators dream about. Oregon's presumptive QB1 sits at No. 7 on our model board, one spot off a consensus rank of six, and the model's own tiers put him in the elite-outcome bucket almost as often as not.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · HS recruit rating — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
KJ Bolden plays like a single-high safety who can shrink the field — fluid hips and range that let him erase throws over the middle before they develop, with coverage reads scouts already call rare for where he is in his career. Georgia has moved him all over the back end, and PFN Draft's notes call him a chess piece who won't stay glued to one spot. The model has him at No. 8 overall for 2027, a five-spot gap ahead of the No. 13 consensus, and the room isn't fighting that read.
What the model likes: HS recruit rating · Scout consensus — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
A full breakout season is sitting on the box score here: 11.5 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and 5.0 pass breakups at 6-2, 312 pounds, up from almost nothing the year before. Draftanomics's career-value model likes it enough to slot him at No. 9 in the 2027 front-seven class, but the gap is stark: not one public board has him ranked at all right now.
Ryan Williams wins in space, not on size — good explosiveness out of his stance and slippery work after the catch, per Best Available — even as his box score bent the wrong way over two seasons at Alabama. The model's career-value board slots him at No. 10 overall for 2027, but zero public big boards list him at all, a gap that says more about visibility than about the crystal ball. The traits split the difference: deep-ball tracking that flashes special and a drop problem that has to get cleaned up.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · HS recruit rating · Age — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Arch Manning is a big, mobile quarterback who keeps his eyes downfield and turns busted pockets into off-platform completions, the kind of pocket feel that usually takes years to develop. The model's board has him at No. 11 overall, a few spots under the room's consensus at No. 7, but with a 7.5-pick consensus spread that gap reads as agreement across the board. Bust risk sits at just 0.5 percent, and elite grades out as the single most likely outcome on the model's tier card.
What the model likes: Scout consensus — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa wins with his get-off — an off-ball linebacker who fires out of his stance like a rush artist, then still closes on tight ends with easy play speed. Draftanomics's model likes it more than the room does: he sits at No. 12 on the model board, 15 spots clear of his No. 27 consensus rank, with the model pricing in a ceiling the field hasn't caught up to yet.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · Age · HS recruit rating — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Cayden Green plays like a mauler with a genuinely elite pass-pro anchor, controlling reps with heavy hands and grip strength that show up snap after snap. The model slots him 13th overall, four spots clear of a consensus board that already has him at 17, and for once the room and the math are rowing the same direction. Elite is the model's single most likely outcome for him, well clear of bust risk.
What the model likes: Scout consensus · HS recruit rating · Age — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Julian Sayin wins with rhythm and clean mechanics, not with his legs or a cannon arm. The model board has him at No. 14 overall — 12 spots above the No. 26 consensus mark — and that gap says the industry hasn't caught up to how the accuracy grades out at scale.
What the model likes: HS recruit rating · Age · Scout consensus — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Rasheem Biles moves like a coverage safety trapped in a linebacker's frame, the exact trait Best Available flags as his best. The model has him at No. 15 overall, 50 slots clear of the consensus rank of 65, and that gap says everything about how divided the room is on translating that movement profile to Sundays.
What the model likes: Schedule-adjusted production · Age · HS recruit rating — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Trevor Lauck plays like a wall with a temper — a sturdy anchor against power rushes and the finishing streak to move defenders off the ball, per PFN Draft's notes. Iowa's left tackle sits at No. 16 on the model board, a full 44 spots ahead of his No. 60 consensus rank — the kind of split that makes the room's radar look slow.
What the model likes: HS recruit rating · Age — exact weights on hover, full math on the dossier.
Kewan Lacy runs with a real second gear once he clears the line — explosive top-end speed that separates load-bearing college backs from three-down NFL ones. Draftanomics' model has him at No. 17 overall, 10 spots above the No. 27 industry consensus, after he shouldered a workhorse season at Ole Miss: 306 carries, 1,567 yards and 24 touchdowns in 2025. The efficiency number underneath that workload, though, grades out below average for the position.
Kade Pieper is the center evaluators keep pointing to first: PFN Draft's notes call him "my top center prospect by a mile." The model's board backs that enthusiasm hard, slotting Pieper at No. 18 overall, 37 spots above the industry consensus of No. 55 across 12 boards. That is about as loud as model dissent gets, and it makes him one of the sharper value plays at the position in this class.
David Stone plays like the exact problem an offensive coordinator dreads on Sunday morning — a violent, twitched-up interior rusher whose hands jar blockers off their landmarks before the play even develops. The model's card lands him at 19th overall, tucked close enough to the room's No. 11 that the two evaluations align.
Austin Siereveld looks built to maul in pass sets and run lanes alike, having taken over at left tackle for Ohio State's national title run and not surrendered a single sack across more than 810 snaps. The model board has seen enough to rank him 20th overall for 2027, a full 29 spots ahead of the 49th-ranked consensus, and that gap is the story here — the room hasn't caught up to what the numbers already believe.
Jamari Johnson plays like a joystick built into a 270-pound frame, winning seam foot races with linebackers who have no business chasing him. The model board slots him at No. 21 for 2027, tighter to the room's No. 14 consensus than the seven-spot gap implies, and the two sides call it aligned.
Koi Perich, the Oregon safety by way of Minnesota, nearly doubled his snap-for-snap tackle number in a single season, going from 46 stops in 2024 to 82 in 2025, while still working in as a receiver and runner. The model has him at No. 22 overall on the 2027 board, 22 spots ahead of the No. 44 consensus mark across 12 public boards, a split wide enough to call real dissent rather than noise.
Jadan Baugh runs like a back who never read the label on his own 214-pound frame, changing direction well enough to make defenders miss angles they're used to closing. The model board has him all the way up at No. 23 overall, a jump of 45 spots over the No. 68 consensus rank, and that's about as wide a gap as you'll see on this year's sheet.
First-round EDGE profile. What the model likes: scout consensus, boards with him top-100; the knock: charting: average depth of target allowed, career avg.
OJ Frederique Jr. is a mirror-and-smother corner whose soft-shoe press keeps him glued to a receiver's hip before he ever has to turn and run. The model board has him at No. 25 overall, a full 53 spots clear of his No. 78 consensus rank across 10 boards — one of the widest model-room splits on the sheet.
First-round CB profile. What the model likes: charting: pass-rush productivity (true pass sets), career avg, age; the knock: boards with him top-100.
A'Mauri Washington plays with a violent swim move he treats as his signature weapon, the kind of hand usage that turns blocks to rubble before linemen can reset. The Oregon disruptor sits at No. 27 on the model's career-value board, 11 spots below the room's consensus No. 16 — a model-lower read that argues the market has gotten ahead of him.
Ryan Wingo's box score did the loud part right: catches, yards and touchdowns all spiked from 2024 to 2025, up to 54 receptions for 834 yards and seven scores on 15.4 yards a catch. The model's board has him at No. 28 overall in the 2027 class, more than 50 spots ahead of the public consensus rank of 83 — a gap of 55 that says the room hasn't caught up to the number yet.
LaNorris Sellers wins with a howitzer right arm and an ability to shed sacks that should already be over, the total package that makes evaluators dream on ceiling. The model has him 29th overall, four spots ahead of a consensus sitting at 33 across 11 boards — a rare stretch of agreement on a passer whose file otherwise reads like a full-blown argument.
Adam Trick profiles as a rangy front-seven defender who put together a real statistical jump in 2025: sacks from 3.5 to eight, tackles for loss from 5.5 to 12, tackles from 37 to 57. Draftanomics' model has him at No. 30 overall for the 2027 class; the public boards have him sitting at No. 184, a gap of 154 spots that's about as wide as dissent gets on this sheet.
Quincy Rhodes Jr. plays like a lineman who hasn't decided which gap to live in — long arms, quick hands, and the versatility to line up anywhere across Arkansas's front, per PFN Draft's notes. The model board has him at No. 31 overall in the 2027 class, 21 spots above the No. 52 consensus grade, and that's before a single testing number exists to referee the debate.
Ellis Robinson IV wins with oily hips and recovery speed, flipping either direction without losing gear and staying glued on vertical routes. Georgia's four-interception, seven-pass-breakup corner in 2025 sits at No. 32 on the model board, 20 spots below a consensus rank of 12 — the kind of gap that says the room trusts the traits more than the model trusts the sample.
Year-1 contributor, year-3 starter timeline. Round 2-3 value.
What the model likes: charting rush grade; the knocks: boards with him top-100, charting total career snaps.
Sammy Brown put together one of the more productive two-year runs at off-ball linebacker in this class, piling up 107 tackles, 14 tackles for loss and 5.5 sacks as a sophomore at Clemson. The model's take is bold here — Brown sits at No. 34 on our career-value board while the industry consensus barely cracks the top 80 at No. 79, a 45-spot gap that makes him one of the sharper points of dissent on the board this cycle.
Omarion Miller wins with explosive first-step burst that lets him hit top speed before the safety can flip his hips, and when the ball is in the air he climbs the ladder to win jump balls at the catch point. The model's board has him at No. 35 overall, 31 spots above the consensus mark of 66 across 16 boards — real separation between the two boards. He also just made the jump from Colorado to Arizona State, a portal move that adds one more variable to an already thin sample.
Nick Marsh runs through contact like a running back trapped in a wide receiver's body, piling up extra yardage after the catch. The Indiana transfer sits at a model grade of No. 36, one spot ahead of the room's consensus No. 37 — tight alignment for a Day 2 outside receiver still building his résumé. Best Available's notes call him pro-ready right now, wiring and technique both ahead of schedule.
He plays the position like the pocket is optional — climbing, escaping, inventing throws that aren't in the progression. Sam Leavitt is the LSU QB, and the model's got him at No. 37 overall, 40 spots ahead of the No. 77 consensus, the kind of gap that either means the room is sleeping or the model's chasing ghosts.
Wyatt Young broke out in a hurry, turning 70 catches into 1,264 yards and 10 touchdowns at North Texas in 2025 before taking that box score to Oklahoma State for the transfer portal cycle. The model's board has him at No. 38 overall, 70 spots ahead of his No. 108 consensus rank across nine public boards — one of the wider reads-versus-room splits on this year's sheet.
Bray Hubbard reads coverage like he's still calling the play from center, diagnosing route combinations before receivers finish their breaks — a carryover from his days at quarterback, per Big Board Lab. That processing has the model board sold enough to rank him No. 39 overall for the 2027 class, while the four boards that have looked at him so far keep him closer to No. 140, a gap that makes him one of the widest model-room splits in the file.
Ethan Wesloski, the Oklahoma State LB by way of a 2026 transfer from North Texas, saw his tackle production nearly double, from 57 total stops in 2024 to 113 in 2025, with tackles for loss climbing from five to nine over that same stretch. The model's career-value board slots him at pick No. 40 with a predicted elite outcome tier, even though zero public boards have him rated anywhere.
A 33-tackle role player in 2024 turned into an 80-tackle, four-TFL contributor in 2025 — one of the bigger snap-count jumps at cornerback in this class. That's Jelani McDonald, the Texas CB, and the model's 2027 board has him at No. 41 overall, well ahead of the No. 133 mean rank across the 10 boards it tracks — a 92-spot gap that marks him as a real model-versus-room split.
Tony Rojas' tackle numbers cratered at Penn State, falling from 56 stops as a breakout linebacker in 2024 to just 25 in 2025, with his tackles for loss and pass breakups sliding right along with them. The model's still bullish anyway — Rojas checks in at No. 42 on the 2027 board, a jump of 107 spots over the two-board consensus mark of No. 149.
Ashton Hampton plays safety with a corner's feet, running a soft press-bail drop that keeps him in phase all the way down the field. The model has him at No. 43 overall, some 55 spots ahead of the room's consensus No. 98, one of the widest model-room splits on the 2027 board. Two seasons of ascending tackle and pass-breakup numbers back up the model's optimism, even if the ball production hasn't caught up yet.
Brauntae Johnson, the Notre Dame safety, saw his tackle count jump from three in 2024 to 48 in 2025, the kind of swing that either means he found his role or simply got more chances — the box score alone can't say which. He sits at No. 44 on the model board, a shade ahead of the No. 50 consensus mark across 15 boards, and for once the model and the room are standing in the same spot.
Jontez Williams put together a real box score at Iowa State in 2024 — 46 tackles, five pass breakups — before that production collapsed to 15 tackles and two breakups in 2025, right as he entered the portal for USC. The model still ranks him at No. 45 overall, 56 spots ahead of the lone public board that has him anywhere near draftable, and projects him into the starter tier at a 39.7% clip.
Zabien Brown plays press-man like a technician — patient, square, and sticky enough to ride in a receiver's hip pocket for four quarters. Alabama's CB1 sits at the model's No. 46, a full 12 spots below the room's consensus No. 34, and the gap traces straight back to one question: can he read zone coverage as well as he covers man?
What the model likes: boards with him top-100, boards with him top-50; the knock: charting yards after contact per att.
Chris Cole is a name that didn't exist on tackle sheets a year ago and now owns one of the sharper single-season jumps in this front-seven class. The Georgia LB posted 61 tackles, 4.5 sacks and 7 TFL in 2025 after managing just 16 tackles, no sacks and 2 TFL the year before, and the model has him at No. 48 on its 2027 board while the five public boards it tracks land him at a mean of No. 182 — a 134-spot gap.
Mark Fletcher Jr. runs downhill and finishes hot, generating 'elite' flattening power and contact balance that turn arm tackles into missed tackles. The model board has him at No. 49 overall for the 2027 class, 33 spots clear of the consensus mark of No. 82 — a gap that says the room hasn't caught up to what the box score and Daft on Draft's notes both argue.
What the model likes: charting coverage grade career avg; the knocks: charting catch rate allowed avg, boards with him top-100.
Suntarine Perkins profiles as a disruptive front-seven piece who racked up 81 tackles and 5.0 pass breakups in 2025, up from 60 tackles and zero breakups the year before, even as his sack total dropped from 10.5 to 4.5. The Ole Miss product sits at No. 51 on Draftanomics's model board, a full 120 spots ahead of the No. 171 he's pulling on the six public boards feeding our consensus.
Terrance Carter Jr. wins after the catch, stacking missed tackles and stringing together cuts that scouts call rare for a tight end. The model has him at No. 52 overall, a full 30 spots above the No. 82 consensus mark — real dissent, with the model carrying the higher grade.
What the model likes: boards with him top-100, charting catch rate allowed; the knock: charting missed tackle rate.
What the model likes: HS recruit rating; the knocks: boards with him top-100, charting total career snaps.
Maverick Baranowski's tackle count nearly doubled from 65 as a Minnesota sophomore to 102 in his most recent season, the kind of raw production spike that gets a linebacker circled on a box score alone. The model's card has him at pick No. 55 overall on a starter projection, but zero public big boards have him ranked anywhere, so there's no outside grade to check that against.
Ian Moore is a 6-foot-6, 317-pound guard out of Ohio State whose frame alone gets him in the mix on the interior. The model's card is a projected starter, and it ranks him at No. 56 overall for the 2027 class — 60 spots ahead of the public consensus mark of No. 116, as wide a split between the model and the room as this cycle produces.
CJ Carr wins with anticipation and touch from a clean pocket, showing veteran instincts that outstrip his 12 career starts — but that poise erodes fast once the rush arrives. Consensus boards have Notre Dame's presumptive QB1 at No. 24 overall, while the model's card lands him all the way down at No. 57.
Will Heldt is a 6-foot-6, 240-pound EDGE who piled up more disruption in 2025 — 14.5 TFL and six sacks — even as his tackle count dropped from 56 to 46 in his first season after transferring from Purdue to Clemson. The model has him at No. 58 overall for the 2027 class, 47 spots ahead of where the public boards have him sitting at No. 105.
Darius Taylor is a workhorse back who authored a monster 2024 season at Minnesota — 205 carries for 986 yards and 10 touchdowns, plus 54 catches for 350 yards — before his workload cratered a year later. Draftanomics' career-value board still has him at No. 59 overall, and that's the widest split on the sheet: the only public board with a grade on file has him at No. 176, 117 spots lower.
Mario Craver, the Texas A&M wide receiver, wins with sudden footwork out of his stance and turns into a problem after the catch — the two traits Best Available's notes keep circling back to. He sits 60th on the model board and 53rd across 11 consensus boards, a seven-spot gap the model treats as noise rather than real dissent.
Ben Roberts is a 6-foot-4, 290-pound defensive lineman who left Oregon for Michigan State by way of the transfer portal in 2024, a four-star recruit built for interior front-seven work. Draftanomics's model rank of 61 sits 70 spots ahead of his No. 131 consensus grade across five boards — a gap wide enough to call real dissent, not noise. The tier model's most likely outcome for him is 'starter,' the largest single bucket on the sheet.
Devin McCuin turned a two-year climb in target volume into one of the more attention-grabbing box scores in this range — 45 catches for 424 yards and five touchdowns in 2024, then 65 for 726 yards and eight scores in 2025 — before taking that résumé from UTSA to Ohio State this offseason. The model isn't matching the market's enthusiasm here: it has him 62nd overall against a public board sitting at 19, a case where the model sits well below the room's number.
Tackles jumped from seven in 2024 to 26 in 2025, with TFL climbing from 2.0 to 6.5 over that same stretch — the box-score profile of a player trending up fast. Justin Scott, the Miami DL, carries a five-star pedigree into a 6-foot-4, 310-pound frame. The model's board has him at No. 63 for the 2027 class, 26 spots south of the No. 37 he holds on public boards averaging 16 evaluations.
Iapani Laloulu is 355 pounds of squat, wide-based mass packed onto a 6-foot-2 frame, the exact build Oregon wants planted at guard. The model's career-value board has him at No. 64 overall for the 2027 class, 63 spots ahead of the No. 127 he's drawing on the consensus board — a gap wide enough to make the room look twice.