How many athletes land in each career bucket as the model's single most likely finish. This is a different question from the board grades below — a prospect can be a Day 3 grade and still have “starter” as his likeliest outcome. The tails (elite, bust) are where the model separates; the middle two buckets sit close to a coin flip.
All 21 athletes with a draftable grade on Draftanomics's 2027 board, tier by tier.
Blue Chip0 players
No blue-chip athlete this cycle — Rasheem Biles is the class's best, and he carries the next grade down.
1st Round3 players
Rasheem Biles out of Texas fronts a three-man first-round tier at No. 15 overall, with Johnson and Baugh filling it out. The drop to Wyatt Young is 15 projected picks: a step, not a cliff. Rasheem Biles is the argument in this tier — No. 15 on our board against a consensus No. 60.
Rasheem BilesTexas· 6'2" · 180 lb· consensus #60
Rasheem Biles moves like a coverage safety trapped in a linebacker's frame, the exact trait Best Available flags as his best.
Jamari JohnsonOregon· 6'4" · 270 lb· consensus #14
Jamari Johnson plays like a joystick built into a 270-pound frame, winning seam foot races with linebackers who have no business chasing him.
Jadan BaughFlorida· 6'0.5" · 214 lb· consensus #57
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.
Day 211 players
This is where the class lives: 11 athletes carry a Day 2 grade, with Wyatt Young out of Oklahoma State at the front of the line at No. 38 overall. The drop to Iverson Hooks is 14 projected picks: a step, not a cliff. The model is planting a flag on Bray Hubbard, 97 spots ahead of where the room ranks him (No. 136).
Wyatt YoungOklahoma State· 6'1" · 180 lb· consensus #98
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.
Bray HubbardAlabama· 6'2" · 190 lb· consensus #136
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.
Jelani McDonaldTexas· 6'2" · 197 lb· consensus #133
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.
Jontez WilliamsUSC· 5'11" · 175 lb· consensus #101
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.
Devin McCuinOhio State· 5'11" · 180 lb· consensus #19
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.
Adrian NortonMarshall· 6'0" · 195 lb
Adrian Norton profiles as a compact slot receiver whose big 2024 season at Akron never carried over to Marshall.
Junior Vandeross IIIToledo· 5'8.5" · 195 lb
Junior Vandeross III is a compact, high-catch slot target who piled up back-to-back 900-plus-yard, 80-plus-catch seasons at Toledo, the kind of workhorse receiving line that usually means a passing game runs through him.
Day 37 players
Iverson Hooks leads a 7-deep Day 3 group — the meat of the ATH board — starting at a projected No. 117 overall. Inside the tier, the model's fight is Vicari Swain: it says No. 169, the room says No. 185.