Early look at My 2026 NFL Draft Prospect Model Rankings

A few years ago, I had the idea of creating a model that would grade each NFL draft prospect based on a number of different factors, including career production, consensus rankings, and athletic testing. My vision for this model finally became a reality for the 2024 NFL Draft, and since then, I have continued to tweak the model to make sure it is operating as best as it can.

With the NFL combine starting today, I am releasing a very early version of my model's rankings for this year's class. These rankings will change a lot after the combine, as we gain more information and I add players to the model.

Since I use career production as one of my model's inputs, some of the results may be significantly different than the consensus. Keep this in mind as you look at the rankings.

Also, when looking at the data points that are used to create the pre-draft prospect scores (production and consensus rank), the number in these columns is each prospects' percentile ranking in these metrics among nearly 2,400 prospects since the 2017 NFL Draft.

For example, Jeremiyah Love currently has a pre-draft prospect score of 99.2, meaning that based on his career production and his consensus ranking, his profile ranks in the 99.2nd percentile among all prospects since 2017.

With all of that out of the way, here is how my NFL Draft prospect model views this year's class before the NFL combine.

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