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Scouting Report, ball placement and accuracy profile, and overall thoughts on South Carolina QB LaNorris Sellers

Cory Kinnan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:49:58 GMT

South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers entered last year’s NFL Draft cycle as a QB1 candidate for many, given his immense physical skillset.

He is 6-foot-3 and 245 pounds, has a rocket attached to his arm, and has explosive speed as a ball carrier. He is a rare, rare breed at the quarterback position who can turn negative plays into neutrals, and even explosives!

However, Sellers did not take the leap that many imagined he would take in his second season as the starting quarterback for the Gamecocks. South Carolina has since moved on from their previous offensive coordinator and has brought in Kendal Briles to run their offense.

The hope is that ridding Sellers of a far-too-structured offense and bringing in more free-flowing spread approach will take the big man’s game to a new level. Will it work? We’ll have a pretty good answer by the end of October on a quarterback who is still quite young for his graduating class.

So, is there still reason to buy into Sellers as an NFL Draft prospect, or does he enter the 2026 season with a giant red flag waving over his head? Here are my thoughts:

Typically, these scouting reports come with a live charting/film breakdown of the quarterback as well. However, with Sellers being a 2026 high-profile candidate, I have his last game of the season already broken down below

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LaNorris Sellers’ Measurements, Career Statistics, and Awards

Measurements (Verified)

Height: 6034

Weight: 245 pounds

Career Statistics

2023: 4-of-4 passing, 100% completion percentage, 86 yards passing, 2 passing touchdowns, 0 interceptions, 51 yards rushing, 1 rushing touchdown

2024: 196-of-299 passing, 65.6% completion percentage, 2,534 yards passing, 18 passing touchdowns, 7 interceptions, 674 yards rushing, 7 rushing touchdowns

2025: 178-of-293 passing, 60.8% completion percentage, 2,437 yards passing, 13 passing touchdowns, 8 interceptions, 270 yards rushing, 5 rushing touchdowns

Awards

2024 FWAA National Freshman of the Year, 2024 SEC Freshman of the Year, 2024 Freshman All-SEC team, Third-Team All-SEC

Injury History

Sellers missed one game in 2024 due to an ankle sprain suffered in Week 3 against LSU. This was a non-conference game against Akron, however, and may have been precautionary as he returned the next week against an SEC opponent.

In 2025, Sellers was knocked out of the game against Vanderbilt with a concussion. He was forced to miss the remainder of that game after the targeting call resulted in an ejection of the defensive player, but did not miss any additional time due to the concussion.

Positional Rankings: Lining up a stacked top-10 crop of wide receivers through summer scouting

Cory Kinnan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:03:35 GMT

Wide receivers are always a stacked position group to work through. You have to watch far more than 10 NFL Draft hopefuls to form a top-10 list. And coming off of a fun class a year ago, a class where six wide receivers went in the first round, we are staring down the barrel of another fun, fun class.

Everybody knows about Jeremiah Smith, who has been the best receiver in college football from the moment he stepped on campus at Ohio State. However, there are loads of names to cover. Narrowing it down to 10 was not an easy task.

Evaluating traits from top-end vertical seperation, to intentionality in route running, to catch comfortability through contact, and more, I have put in a good deal of work through summer scouting to stack up this 2027 NFL Draft crop of wide receivers.

So, who cracked the top-10? I’ve got you covered.

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NFL Draft WRs who just missed the cut
Top-10 WRs in the 2027 draft class
Tiering the 2027 NFL Draft crop of WRs

NFL Draft WRs who just missed the top 10

Ryan Coleman-Williams, Alabama

I have a hard time justifying the hype that Ryan Coleman-Williams has received over the past two years, with the lack of play strength and hand volatility that the Alabama receiver has put on tape.

Football is a contact sport, and Coleman-Williams is constantly overwhelmed by that aspect of playing football. He’s a dynamic, smooth mover who is tough to get hands on after the catch, but securing the football and avoiding being rerouted into the sideline are consistent struggles on his tape.

Amare Thomas, Houston

A player who will be a fun YAC receiver to evaluate this year is going to be Amare Thomas. He’s a good, good football player. His skillset in terms of route running and natural seperation is a bit unrefined, however.

The body of work with the football in his hands is undeniable, though. He’s agile, has a dense build to work through contact, and has good breakaway speed once he gets into green grass. Thomas deserves a shoutout here.

T.J. Moore, Clemson

T.J. Moore, a true junior out of Clemson who has started since his true freshman year, is a rock-solid receiver. However, he lacks that defining trait. He’s an average route runner, an average separator on the vertical plane, has average release packages, and has an average ability to track the football.

We’ll see if Moore develops that defining trait in 2026, but right now, there is no real skill that an evaluator can put a gold star next to.

Top-10 WRs through Summer scouting

Texas A&M’s Mario Craver is a ton of fun. However, wide receivers who play predominantly at or behind the line of scrimmage and fall short of the ideal measurements have work to do to break the mold of a gadget receiver.

I do like Craver more than I liked both Zachariah Branch and Antonio Williams last draft cycle, though. Craver’s body of work deep down the field is far steeper than the two 2026 gadget receivers, and his contact balance is extraordinary for his size.

While Craver is listed at just 5-foot-9 and 165 pounds, his stride lengths are like those of a gazelle. His catch radius and hand strength are far bigger than his size as well.

However, there are still obvious areas that Craver will be capped out in.

Inside the Film Room: Not another Iowa tight end

Cory Kinnan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:59:38 GMT

Dallas Clark, C.J. Fiedorowicz, George Kittle, Noah Fant, T.J. Hockenson, Sam LaPorta.

Iowa has pushed out an impressive resume of tight ends into the NFL Draft and onto the next level. They have earned the reputation as TEU, and now, they may just have another one coming through the system ahead of the 2027 NFL Draft in DJ Vonnahme.

A relative unknown for most of the season and a former two-star walk-on who had to fight for a scholarship, Vonnahme finished his 2025 campaign with a strong back-five games after injuries decimated the tight end room at Iowa. Advantage: taken.

Now, entering his Redshirt Sophomore season at just 20 years old, Vonnahme has a chance to prove that his name belongs in the same category as the likes of Clark, Kittle, and Hockenson. Is that leap going to happen in 2027, however, or will Vonnahme find himself playing out his time with the Hawkeyes a bit longer first?

Let’s turn on the tape here and find some answers to that question.

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Measurements, Stats, and Awards

Listed Measurements

Height: 6-foot-4

Weight: 240 pounds

Stats

2025: 38 targets, 29 catches, 434 yards receiving, 3 touchdowns

Awards

Vonnahme was named as a 2025 Freshman All-American by the Football Writers of America Association.

Injury History

Vonnahme missed one game in 2025 with an undisclosed injury.

Scouting report, ball placement and accuracy profile, and overall thoughts on NC State QB CJ Bailey

Cory Kinnan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:08:44 GMT

A two-year starter at NC State, ever since his freshman season, Bailey enters the 2027 NFL Draft cycle with a decent amount of hype and recognition among draftniks. He is this week’s quarterback to talk about.

However, we are seeing fewer and fewer underclassmen quarterbacks declare with the growth of NIL. These quarterbacks can go back to school and still lock down financial security without taking the massive risk of leaping to the NFL. It’s why I am skeptical of using too much of my summer scouting time on underclassmen quarterbacks, but Bailey has gathered enough hype for me to pay attention.

Here, I break down his season finale against North Carolina (also his best performance), provide a six-game ball placement and accuracy charting profile, and write up a full scouting report on the Wolfpack gunslinger.

Here are my thoughts on the 20-year-old Bailey entering the 2026 season:

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Measurables, Career Stats, and Awards

Measurables (listed)

Height: 6-foot-6

Weight: 213 pounds

Career Stats

2024: 196-of-302 passing, 64.9% completion percentage, 2,413 yards passing, 17 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 279 yards rushing, 5 rushing touchdowns

2025: 273-of-397 passing, 68.8% completion percentage, 3,105 yards passing, 25 touchdowns, 9 interceptions, 215 yards rushing, 6 rushing touchdowns

Awards

N/A

Injury History

Bailey has suffered no significant injury that has caused him to miss time.

Inside the Film Room: Why Cam Coleman will become Arch Manning's best friend in 2026

Cory Kinnan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:38:28 GMT

Another week down, another Inside the Film Room out into the universe.

This week, we focus on Texas wide receiver Cam Coleman, who joins forces with Arch Manning in Austin after two seasons at Auburn. He was perhaps the biggest name to enter the transfer portal this past Spring and landed with Texas despite interest from Texas A&M, Florida, and others.

However, where does he stand in what looks to be a strong wide receiver class on paper? Per the consensus board on my podcast co-host James Foster’s site, Coleman is seen as the second-best receiver behind just Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State, and the sixth-best player in the entire draft class.

So, you know what that means. We need to get to the tape and see if that strong standing in a deep draft class stands true. And that’s just what we do here.

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Listed Measurements and Awards

Height: 6-foot-3

Weight: 201 pounds

Awards: 2024 Freshman All-SEC

Cam Coleman’s stats at Auburn

2024: 54 targets, 37 catches, 598 yards receiving, 8 touchdowns

2025: 87 targets, 56 catches, 708 yards receiving, 5 touchdowns

Injury History

Outside of smaller, nagging injuries, including an ankle injury vs. Arkansas in 2025, Coleman has not missed any games due to injury.

Positional Rankings: Top-10 Defensive Tackles from Summer Scouting

Cory Kinnan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:04:38 GMT

Our first positional rankings of the 2027 NFL Draft summer scouting circuit! And first up is the big men along the defensive trenches.

We are coming off a pretty abysmal defensive tackle class that saw just two go in the first round and five in the first two rounds total. Many of those defensive tackles had predominant nose tackle responsibilities as well. This year’s class, through summer scouting, is a promising one to keep a close eye on. There are names galore, and a handful with first round potential.

I have watched and graded 14 of them with the highest summer and consensus grades among the group. I have never been afraid of going against the grain of consensus for the players that I feel are worth pounding the table for (and against players who I see as a bit overrated compared to consensus).

So, what are my initial thoughts on the defensive tackle class? Here, I break down my top-10, name some honorable mentions, tier the 14 names watched, and even give a bit of a scouting synopsis of what I look for when scouting defensive tackles.

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What I watch for when scouting DTs

When watching and evaluating defensive tackles, I reduce my evaluation to five key traits to evaluate, all weighted differently based on how I value their importance. Those five key traits are:

Explosiveness
Lower Half Fluidity
Pass Rush Plan
Physical Play Strength
Versatility

Let’s talk a bit more about what each of those traits entails.

Explosiveness

How fast does a defensive lineman get off the ball? There is a snap timing element to this, but there is also a skill of how much pop they can instantly generate when uncoiling through their hips at the moment the ball is snapped.

Can they win with power through the chest of the man across from them? I cap a player’s explosiveness rating if they cannot continue to take that speed and pop off the ball and convert it into a power profile to devastate the anchor of the blocker. If a defender can fire off the ball, but their legs stall out and are stood up by blockers, the explosiveness has room for improvement.

Lower Half Fluidity

Can the defender fire off their plant foot laterally with suddenness from a standstill position? This translates to crossing the face of blockers and penetrating gaps with quick-twitch. This short-area suddenness is a starting point for me when looking at the lower-half fluidity of defensive linemen.

Do their pass rush attempts tend to stall out at the top of the arc, or can they find a way to flatten their pathway to the quarterback? This is a sign of how tight or loose a defensive tackle’s ankles are. If a defender can constantly exploit the outside shoulder of blockers but can never find a pathway to the quarterback from there, the chances that they have stiff ankles are high.

Does the defensive tackle find ways to knife narrow alleyways upfront? Can they play with their hips stacked up laterally, or are they constantly exposing the full width of their chest? To me, this is a sign of how much wiggle a defensive trench player has in their hips.

That ability to flatten corners is a sign of hip fluidity as well, especially if the pass rusher can show signs of stacking up their hips inversely to hide targets for blockers to strike. It also allows for shorter-armed defensive tackles to still find leverage points and ways into the chest of the man across from them if they can manipulate their body into angles that keep longer-armed blockers at bay.

Lastly, the pad level. How much knee bend does a defensive tackle have? We’ll talk through a few defensive tackles in this class below who just cannot find any sink in their knees to get underneath blockers. This limits the amount of power one can generate and how many leverage points they can find.

Pass Rush Plan

This one is pretty self-explanatory. How well can the pass rusher conceive and execute a plan specifically designed to beat the player across from him? There are upper-half and lower-half elements at play here.

Can slippery, speed rushers learn to set up blockers outside, threatening with that speed, then learn a changeup back across the face once that overset has been worked? Can a power rusher who thrives through the chest work out the feel and timing to throw a hump move, swim, or spin the moment he feels that blocker starting to drop back onto their heels and anchor in against their power?

“Pass rush bag” is overrated. Especially for defensive tackles who have less green grass between themselves and blockers. However, defensive tackles still need to know their own tendencies, how the man across from them will look to gameplan against their tendencies, and how to throw changeups off of those tendencies to keep blockers guessing.

Physical Play Strength

Another trait that is pretty self-explanatory here. Football is a contact sport. Players have to 1. Be able to initiate contact that the man across from them feels on a down-to-down basis, and 2. play through that same level of contact that the opponent is looking to put onto them.

How heavy are a defensive tackle’s hands? When he uncoils and strikes the man across from him, can you see the thunderous knock-back power, or does the blocker just tend to absorb it and go about his business?

When a blocker lands a punch on the defensive tackle, how well do they maintain their balance through contact? Are they devastated by solo blocks or down blocks, or can they maintain gap integrity through that punch? How strong is their anchor when taking on two blockers (there is also a leverage and pad level element at play here, too)?

Lastly, how well can the player finish when he has quarterbacks and ball carriers dead to rights? There are A LOT of poor-tackling defensive tackles. Much of this is a lower-body trait as well, as running backs tend to show some wiggle in a phone booth and catch bigger bodies flat-footed. However, there are times when defensive tackles just cannot get quarterbacks and ball carriers to the ground when they have a shot at production.

Versatility

This is broken down into two parts for me at positions along the defensive line (both defensive tackles and edge rushers). First, how many different alignments can the player provide positive output at? Secondly, are there situations where the player has to come off the field because of some sort of skillset or play-strength deficiency?

Just because you see a defensive tackle playing from nose all the way out to big end does not mean that player CAN play from all of those alignments with success. Sometimes teams have to kick players in or out solely because of a lack of bodies or talent on the roster. However, how does a predominant three-tech look when he’s kicked inside to nose tackle? Does he still hold his own against the run? If not, then that’s not necessarily a sign of versatility in his game.

In terms of situations where the player is on or off the field, the two main ones that show up are 1. short-yardage and goalline situations, and 2. obvious passing situations. Is the player off the field in one of those situations? That may just be a tell-tale sign about the kind of player their coaching staff thinks they are and the situations they do not trust that player to be on the field for.

You can find a full conversation about what to watch for when scouting defensive tackles between my podcast co-host, James Foster, and me on the Daft on Draft podcast (link below).

Honorable Mention: Just missed the mark

Cody Sigler, Auburn
Kemari Copeland, Virginia Tech
AJ Holmes, Texas Tech
Devan Thompkins, Alabama

Scouting report, accuracy profile, and overall thoughts on Notre Dame QB CJ Carr

Cory Kinnan — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:44:19 GMT

Last week, I hit a full breakdown of new Oklahoma State quarterback Drew Mestemaker and what he brings to the Big 12 after a stellar season. I tested out a new summer format for my quarterback evaluations as well, wrapping the Weighted On-Target Percentage ball placement and accuracy charting profile, live charting video breakdown, and scouting report into the same article.

So, that’s what we do here as well with Notre Dame Redshirt Sophomore quarterback CJ Carr.

The grandson of legendary Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr, there is obviously a ton of prestige that the Notre Dame quarterback carries with him. A four-star recruit out of high school, Carr was heavily recruited, but opted for the Fighting Irish over the likes of his grandfather’s old stomping grounds, LSU, Georgia, Alabama, and more.

And after winning the starting job a year ago over Kenny Minchey as a Redshirt Freshman, Carr went on to have a successful 2025 campaign. But did he put enough on tape to truly be considered among the top quarterbacks in the 2027 class in his one season of starting experience?

As we’ve done for the other quarterbacks in this class, here is a video breakdown of one game of Carr, a full ball placement and accuracy charting profile, a scouting report, and overall thoughts on the Notre Dame quarterback.

Enjoy!

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CJ Carr’s career stats and measurements (listed and unverified)

2025 stats: 195-of-293 passing, 66.67% completion percentage, 2,741 yards passing, 24 passing touchdowns, 6 interceptions

Height: 6-3

Weight: 210 pounds

Injury History

Was shut down in September of 2024, serving as the third-string quarterback behind Riley Leonard and Steve Angeli, due to discomfort in his throwing elbow. He was iced for six weeks for this injury. He was fully cleared and 100% ready to go by 2025 Spring practices, and the injury did not require surgery.

Scouting Report: Can Omarion Miller use his fresh start to vault draft stock?

Cory Kinnan — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:55:48 GMT

Another day, another 2027 NFL Draft summer scouting report.

Today, we dive into Arizona State wide receiver Omarion Miller. Transferring to the Sun Devils from Colorado, Miller is coming off a career year despite quarterback volatility that saw three different starters this past season in Boulder.

Now, he will catch passes from former Kentucky quarterback Cutter Boley under the guidance of Kenny Dillingham in Tempe. Miller had some love from scouts around the league last year before opting to go back to school, and then made the wise decision to head toward greener pastures after three seasons at Colorado.

What does Miller bring to the field as he takes his talents to Arizona State? Here is a full scouting report on the talented pass catcher and his NFL projection as he looks to boost his NFL Draft stock this next season.

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Measurements and Awards

Height: 6007 (verified)

Weight: 209 (verified)

Awards: Second Team All-Big 12 (2025)

Miller’s stats at Colorado

2023: 11 catches, 234 yards receiving, 1 touchdown

2024: 10 catches, 216 yards receiving, 1 touchdown

2025: 45 catches, 808 yards receiving, 8 touchdowns

Injury History

Miller suffered a significant lower-body injury in October of 2024 after enduring a hip drop tackle against Kansas State. He also missed time in 2025 with a minor hamstring injury suffered in Week 1 against Georgia Tech.

Inside the Film Room: What Jordan Seaton brings to LSU and the 2027 NFL Draft class

Cory Kinnan — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:12:59 GMT

Offensive Tackle Jordan Seaton is no secret to College Football or the 2027 NFL Draft class.

A former five-star recruit who committed to Colorado over Ohio State, Tennessee, and Oregon, Seaton was a day-one starter in Boulder, and now enters his third season as an everyday starter after taking his talents to LSU in the transfer portal. With the NFL in a constant supply and demand crisis at the offensive tackle position, Seaton’s prestige alone will get plenty of eyes on him.

However, do the tape and talent actually match that of the five-star hype and reputation that Seaton has developed through his first two seasons at the college level? That’s the question we look to answer here.

With another summer scouting Inside the Film Room on deck, here we break down what Seaton brings to the field. And as I have been doing with the film breakdowns this summer, it comes attached with a full scouting report on the player as well.

So, what do I think of Seaton? Here is a film breakdown and full scouting report to see for yourself.

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Jordan Seaton measurements and awards

Measurements

Listed at 6-foot-5 and 307 pounds

Awards

2024 Freshman All-American
2024 Honorable Mention All-Big 12
2025 Second-Team All-Big 12

Injury History

Seaton missed the final three games of the 2025 season at Colorado with a lower-body injury that put him in a walking boot. Colorado described this as a precautionary measure, however, as they were out of bowl qualification range. This is the only injury that caused Seaton to miss time over the last two seasons.

NFL Draft Summer Scouting Primer: Quarterbacks

Cory Kinnan — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:50:08 GMT

We are getting into summer scouting here now, after taking a bit of a break after the 2026 NFL Draft. And as I get into these position groups, a great starting point per position will be to break down the bigger names in the class and provide a bit of context for each name.

We know that Texas’s Arch Manning and Oregon’s Dante Moore will enter the season as the headliners in the class, but there are plenty of names that either need to be punted to the 2028 class completely, have the makeup of NFL backups (this is not a bad thing!), or have what it takes to be a potential riser this season.

So, that’s what I do here in this quarterback primer. I have divided the names out for easy sorting and have provided a quick blurb for a flurry of quarterbacks in this year’s draft class.

DISCLAIMER: This is not a positional rankings piece. This is simply a primer to provide names and initial thoughts on quarterbacks in the class for those interested in doing a deeper summer scouting dive

Not ready to talk about them this year

Julian Sayin, Ohio State

My comparison for Julian Sayin, even going back to last year, has been former Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray. Sure, he is accurate, but the tools are underwhelming, he’s tiny, and when pressure ramped up last year, he wilted. Sayin is only a Redshirt Sophomore, and I’m not really willing to have the NFL Draft conversation with him yet.

CJ Bailey, NC State

This is a quarterback that I just have not seen it with. The arm is not overly powerful despite the long frame, the decision-making is extremely rough, and the accuracy is all over the place. I’ll need to see a massive stride from Bailey early in 2026 for me to consider a charting profile or an in-season write-up.

Nico Iamaleava, UCLA

The accuracy has always been an issue with Nico Iamaleava. He now has a fun head coach to pair him with, and a leap is certainly possible. What he has done through his college career at both Tennessee and UCLA to this point, however, has not warranted much NFL attention despite the high-end tools.

Sam Leavitt, LSU

Sam Leavitt is entering the ideal college offense for his style of play, which is currently laser a throw to his primary target or tuck and run to look for action with his legs. He’s too much of a “live on the fringes” kind of quarterback for my liking from an NFL evaluation perspective, but the tools are wiry.

Demond Williams, Washington

Williams is undersized and a bit frenetic and scatter-shot as a quarterback, playing in structure and from an accuracy perspective. I am not saying he couldn’t take a leap, but he’s not one I’ll prioritize in summer scouting.

Weighted On-Target Percentage: Is Drew Mestemaker a serious 2027 NFL Draft candidate?

Cory Kinnan — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:03:42 GMT

Outside of Texas’ Arch Manning, there may not be a 2027 NFL Draft gunslinger getting more hype from the louder corners of draft social media than North Texas-to-Oklahoma State transfer quarterback Drew Mestemaker.

Following head coach Eric Morris to the Cowboys, Mestemaker is an incredible story. After no starting experience at the high school level, Mestemaker found his way to North Texas, and was named the starter in 2026.

We know exactly what the 6-foot-3 and 211-pound quarterback did for the Mean Green in 2025. Just look at the long list of awards he won and others for which he was nominated as a finalist or semifinalist for.

So, let’s take a deep dive into what Mestemaker brings to the field. Here is a comprehensive look, from a Live Charting film breakdown, to a look at his full ball placement and accuracy profile, and a summer scouting report on Mestemaker.

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Drew Mestemaker’s stats at North Texas

2024: 30/46 passing, 65.2% completion percentage, 462 yards, 2 touchdowns, 2 interceptions, 87 rushing yards, 6.2 yards per attempt, 1 rushing touchdown

2025: 319/463 passing, 68.9% completion percentage, 4,379 yards passing, 34 touchdowns, 9 interceptions, 89 rushing yards, 1.6 yards per attempt, 5 rushing touchdowns

2025 Awards: Burlsworth Trophy (best walk-on), American Conference Offensive Player of the Year, Freshman All-American Team, First-Team All-American Conference, Manning Award finalist, Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year Award finalist, Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award finalist, Davey O’Brien Award semifinalist, Walter Camp Award semifinalist

Injury History

Mestemaker was knocked out of the American Conference Championship game; that injury was not disclosed. He did not miss any additional time, starting North Texas’ bowl game against San Diego State.

The young quarterback has no notable injury history.

Inside the Film Room: The best DT duo in College Football can be found in Norman

Cory Kinnan — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:01:20 GMT

Oklahoma defensive tackles David Stone and Jayden Jackson present two intriguing options in the 2027 NFL Draft.

And they’re both young dudes who have traveled together from IMG Academy to Oklahoma. Stone is coming off a season with eight tackles for loss and a sack and a half, while Jackson racked up five tackles for loss and three sacks up front for the…

Scouting Report: Auburn transfer DT Cody Sigler looking to establish himself

Cory Kinnan — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:01:24 GMT

Not every NFL Draft scouting report in summer scouting needs to be some deep sleeper.

However, they’re pretty fun to find. And Auburn transferred in a fun defensive tackle from the Sun Belt this past portal window in former Arkansas State defensive tackle Cody Sigler. So, that’s who we’re going to talk about today after I watched the tape and wrote up his notes.

Listed at 6-foot-2 and 302 pounds, Sigler’s size is not overwhelming, but it clears thresholds by every sense of the word. Based on how he appears on tape, the arms may be a bit on the stubbier side, but he knows how to wield them from a power profile perspective.

He comes to Auburn after racking up five sacks and seven tackles for loss with the Wolves a year ago, after transferring up from the Division II level at West Alabama. Yes, that means Sigler has gone from the Division II level to the SEC in a matter of one calendar year.

Now at the SEC level, Sigler is looking to prove that he belongs. So, what does Sigler bring to the Tigers in his fifth year at the college level?

Scouting Notebook: Indiana's defensive line, a Cincinnati trench player, and some more 2027 NFL Draft sleepers to watch

Cory Kinnan — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:39:55 GMT

It’s time for our weekly Scouting Notebook as we get a bit deeper into summer scouting the 2027 NFL Draft class.

We’ve got a loaded slate this week, from talking quarterbacks on Yahoo! Sports’ Football 301 podcast with Nate Tice, to some sleepers in the class, to highlighting an entire unit on the defensive National Champs, and more. There is much to get through!

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So, let’s get into this week’s Scouting Notebook to see what has stood out to me as I get deeper into summer scouting.

Coming up on Daft on Draft

I will be recording a new Inside the Film Room tonight on an EDGE rusher who has popped on broadcast viewings. I am excited to dive under the hood and see if the tape matches the bursts I’ve seen when watching games live.

If you are unfamiliar with my Inside the Film Room series, you can find them here to get a good idea of what to expect.

James and I took the week off from recording the Daft on Draft Podcast as well, but we will be back next week to begin our summer scouting series. We are starting with quarterbacks as well, and have a fun cadence planned for summer scouting. So, be sure to tune into that.

I am also starting a Monday Morning Hangover newsletter. The goal here is to wrap up any quick-hitting news into one aggregated letter, look back at the week prior, and perhaps look ahead at what is to come on Daft on Draft. This will become meatier when games are happening over the weekend before that Monday, but we’ll make do throughout the offseason as well.

Draft season never ends! So, get your year-round draft content here at Daft on Draft.

Talking QBs with Nate Tice

In case you missed it, I went on Yahoo! Sports’ Football 301 podcast with Nate Tice to discuss the upcoming quarterback class. The episode is 90 minutes long, and we go deep into the class. It’s a great primer episode for anyone looking to get ahead of the action.

Quarterbacks discussed include:

Arch Manning, Texas
Dante Moore, Oregon
LaNorris Sellers, South Carolina
Drake Lindsey, Minnesota
Drew Mestemaker, Oklahoma State
CJ Carr, Notre Dame
Julian Sayin, Ohio State
Trinidad Chambliss, Ole Miss
Jayden Maiava, USC
Byrum Brown, Auburn
Brendan Sorsby, Texas Tech

You can find that episode on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Scouting Report: Penn State landed the best center in the draft class

Cory Kinnan — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:22:45 GMT

Get to know Penn State center Brock Riker now, or get left in the dust. He is the perfect candidate for the next scouting report.

He’s only a Redshirt Sophomore and has never taken a snap as a Power Four starter, but the 6-foot-4 and 291-pound center (Penn State has told me he is up to 305 pounds now) has high-end tools and high-end tape to be considered as a key player in the 2027 NFL Draft class.

A former three-star recruit out of Brock, Texas (funny, given his name), Riker chose Texas State over Texas State and Arkansas State as his only FBS offers. His fortunes have changed two years later, re-entering the recruiting pool with much bigger sharks swarming the waters.

This time around, Penn State was able to beat out blue bloods like Alabama, Texas, National Championship runner-up Miami, and Ole Miss for his services. You might be wondering why a Group of 6, one-year starter was gathering so much heat out of the portal, and those questions are answered the moment the tape comes on.

So, let’s take a look at the tape and write up a scouting report on Riker. Again, I will be using my new grading scale and tiering system. The explanation of that new system can be found here.

Brock Riker Career Awards and Data Points

Riker was named as a Second-Team Freshman All-American by The Athletic for his efforts in 2025. Here is a snippet of his play that can be captured via data points:

Zero sacks allowed on 438 pass blocking reps
Allowed one QB hit and seven pressures all season long
97.6% pass blocking efficiency on true pass sets
12 career starts

Injury History

Riker has no known injury history outside of a 2023 car accident that resulted in five stitches in his finger.

Live Charting: Is there enough conviction to tab Drake Lindsey as a 'big riser?'

Cory Kinnan — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:02:50 GMT

There has been some hype around Minnesota quarterback Drake Lindsey heading into the 2027 NFL Draft summer scouting (admittedly, I contributed to that noise).

Last year, I was the first to write about Fernando Mendoza, dropping an article on the Monday after the 2025 NFL Draft, calling him the next big riser. Now, there has been some skepticism as to whe…

Scouting Report: What should Brendan Sorby's value be in the Supplemental Draft?

Cory Kinnan — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:01:21 GMT

The Brendan Sorsby saga continues, as he has hired representation to try to preserve his eligibility. That, however, would be an unprecedented ruling from the NCAA to negotiate with this particular issue.

That issue, obviously, is Sorsby’s gambling addiction that has landed him in a rehabilitation facility after placing numerous bets on his own team dating all the way back to his time at Indiana. This has now raised a ton of questions about whether or not Sorsby will be bound for the Supplemental Draft this summer instead of spending his last year of eligibility in Lubbock after transferring to Texas Tech.

This places a sense of urgency to break down some more of his tape and complete his Weighted On-Target Percentage charting profile. That’s what I do here. You’ll see there is a video attached to this article. Not only do I provide a full scouting report here, but I also provide a film breakdown of his game down the stretch.

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So, if your team is interested in Sorsby in the Supplemental Draft, at what value should you feel comfortable with your team bidding at? That’s the question we seek to answer here.

Brendan Sorsby’s Career Statistics

At Indiana

2022: 3/6 passing, 50% completion percentage, 8 yards, 0 touchdowns, 1 interception

2023: 135/237 passing, 57% completion percentage, 1,587 yards passing, 15 touchdowns passing, 5 interceptions, 276 yards rushing, 4 rushing touchdowns

At Cincinnati

2024: 249/389 passing, 64% completion percentage, 2,813 yards passing, 18 touchdowns, 7 interceptions, 447 yards rushing, 9 rushing touchdowns

2025: 207/336 passing, 61.6% completion percentage, 2,800 yards passing, 27 touchdowns, 5 interceptions, 580 yards rushing, 9 rushing touchdowns

Injury History

Sorsby has no significant injury history that has forced him to miss significant action at the college level. He suffered a shoulder injury against Penn State in 2023, but did not miss any playing time.

Weighted On-Target Percentage Database: Summer Scouting ball placement and accuracy charting profiles

Cory Kinnan — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:19:00 GMT

The charting grind never stops.

With the 2026 NFL Draft class in the rearview mirror, we are onto the 2027 NFL Draft. And for anyone who has subscribed to Daft on Draft or followed my work long enough, you know that my Weighted On-Target Percentage ball placement and accuracy charting profiles are a large bulk of the work that I do.

And I already have a handful of profiles done, enough to launch the summer scouting database on the Google Drive. Right now, at the date of launch, there are five profiles in there. I will continue to add more profiles to the Drive as I complete them.

The purpose of this article, however, is to serve as the pinned landing page on the site here for ease of reference when searching for the charts. The link to the Drive is located at the bottom of the article and below the paywall for paid subscribers.

This article also serves as a terminology and methodology understanding of the charts. I have been charting quarterbacks since the 2019 season, so a ton of tinkering, refining of the process (and of my eyes), and more have gone into this ball placement and accuracy metric.

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The methodology behind Weighted On-Target Percentage

I want to reward high-leverage and big-time throws that quarterbacks are capable of making. Those are the game-changing plays, especially as they become rarer at the NFL level as explosive play rates continue to fall. So when a quarterback has the opportunity to stretch the field, they need to be able to connect.

Throughout the five years that I have been charting now, deep throws (25+ yards in depth) have the highest difference in standard deviation as well. This is where great quarterbacks separate themselves from good ones.

Similarly, boundary throws are going to be weighed slightly higher than throws over the middle, and middle-of-the-field throws will carry a larger weight than the short game (the least difference in standard deviation among quarterbacks).

When weighing their on-target percentage to each of these four levels of the field, I will get one solid number: their Weighted On-Target Percentage.

Changes made to the methodology

Starting during the 2024 season, I made one small change to my process: I am no longer charting the mismatch games. This means Power Four quarterbacks will not get charts added to their data for the matchups against Group of Six and FCS competition.

You can find a study that I did with the 2025 NFL Draft class here.

I found that it did not make a huge difference to the overall Weighted On-Target Percentages, but did weed out an outlier. So if the cost of charting fewer games is weeding out a rare outlier with minimal overall impact, then that’s the move to take.

And it just so happens to take a chunk of work off my plate.

This is why you will see quarterbacks like Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and Penn State’s Drew Allar do not have a single chart in the database at launch (as of 9/19).

Understanding the charts

When looking through the charts, you will see five different colors: green, red, blue, yellow, and black. Here are the breakdowns of what these colors mean:

Green: On-target and a completion

Red: Off-target and incomplete

Blue: On-target and incomplete

Yellow: Off-target but completed

Black: Unchartable throw

When referring to the totals to the right of the charts, these tallies are percentages of on-target throws. If a deep ball is leveraged correctly and hits the right landmark but is not tracked appropriately by the wideout or dropped, then that ball will be deemed on-target, and the quarterback will be given credit for that throw.

If the receiver catches a throw but takes a substantial adjustment because the throw is leveraged back into coverage or on the wrong shoulder, I’ll ding the quarterback for that throw.

This might seem ticky-tacky, but the margin for error when evaluating quarterbacks and what makes them tick in the NFL is razor-thin. It’s necessary to be critical.

Uncharted throws include throwaways, miscommunications between the wide receiver and quarterback, quarterback hits that significantly impact the flight of the football, and Hail Marys.

For a better visual example, you can watch any live charting that I’ve done on the Substack. Here is the most recent one that I did on Arkansas quarterback Taylen Green vs. Ole Miss:

The Limitations of Weighted On-Target Percentage

This is not the full picture of a quarterback’s NFL Draft profile, however. This simply helps to distinguish and prioritize which quarterbacks thrive more at levels of the field that create more explosive plays.

Weighted On-Target Percentage does not tell how strong a quarterback’s arm is. It does not indicate how they manage a difficult pocket. It doesn’t measure the speed of a quarterback’s eyes at dissecting a coverage post-snap or what they are seeing pre-snap. It simply measures ball placement and accuracy.

And sometimes even the final number can be a bit deceiving. Bo Nix’s chart out of Oregon from the 2023 season is a great example of this, as is Bailey Zappe’s when he was coming out of Western Kentucky.

Both of those quarterbacks finished with a Weighted On-Target Percentage of around 70 and lingered near the top of their classes. However, their volume of underneath throws was in some cases 30 percent more than others in the class. Naturally, their number is going to be inflated if they only threw 15 deep balls all season and were on target on 8 of them.

There is more to the evaluation of a quarterback than strictly Weighted On-Target Percentage. My hope, however, is that it is a significant tool to help dissect one of the key aspects of playing the quarterback position: ball placement and accuracy.

Find the 2027 NFL Draft summer scouting charts here!

Scouting Notebook: Oregon loaded up, Small school transfers ups, QB discourse, and more!

Cory Kinnan — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:33:12 GMT

We have our first Scouting Notebook of the 2027 NFL Draft cycle!

The purpose of these articles is to articulate players that I have watched that may be flying under the radar, relay information I have heard from scouts around the league, and to address bigger talking points of the NFL Draft cycle to this point.

In today’s Scouting Notebook, we’ll talk about the wide receiver class, a couple of running backs, carryover grades from the 2026 NFL Draft process, small school transfer-ups with big-time potential, and more!

So, let’s dive in! There is quite a bit here to digest…

Scouting Report: Vanderbilt's Junior Sherrill is a name you must know in 2026

Cory Kinnan — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:45:02 GMT

We have our first scouting report of the 2027 NFL Draft summer scouting cycle! And first up is a player that I had on my early summer watchlist, Vanderbilt wide receiver Junior Sherrill.

Listed at 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds, Sherrill posted 784 yards receiving and seven touchdowns on 54 catches for the Commodores in 2025. He was second on the team in receiving, a team that had three receivers over 700 yards, as Diego Pavia spread the rock around. Now, with freshman phenom Jared Curtis at the helm, Sherrill will look to solidify himself as a potential top-50 player in the draft class as he enters his Senior season at Vanderbilt.

So, we saw what Sherrill put in the box score a year ago in Nashville, but what did he put on tape? I watched three games of Sherrill’s (Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas) to write up his summer scouting report and give him a preliminary grade.

Enjoy!