2027 NFL Draft: Biggest Risers and Fallers This Week
Last Updated: October 12, 2026Real movement, not vibes: we snapshot the consensus big board every Monday and diff it. These are the prospects whose stock actually moved since Oct 5.
Risers
1. Zereoue Williams — OT, Utah
Up 427 spots since Oct 5: #462 → #35 on the consensus board. Full scouting report →2. Jay'Vion Cole — CBN, Arizona
Up 123 spots since Oct 5: #183 → #60 on the consensus board.Jay'Vion Cole has taken the long way around. A two-star out of Oakland who also ran the 100 meters and the 4x100 relay, he won a CIF State Championship at McClymonds in 2022, then played for four programs.
Full scouting report →3. Maraad Watson — DL1T, Texas
Up 70 spots since Oct 5: #203 → #133 on the consensus board.Maraad Watson is an Irvington, NJ native and former 3-star Syracuse signee who hit the portal in April 2025 and landed at Texas, where he immediately stepped into Pete Kwiatkowski's interior rotation as a sophomore in 2025. At a listed 6'3", 313 pounds, Watson is the prototypical SEC three-technique build: thick lower half, heavy hands, and the kind of frame that can hold up to double teams without losing pass-rush juice.
Full scouting report →4. Terrance Carter Jr — TE, Texas Tech
Up 58 spots since Oct 5: #149 → #91 on the consensus board.Terrance Carter Jr is a flex tight end who wins as a receiver first, last, and always. The Killeen, Texas native arrived at Harker Heights High School as a quarterback before coaches moved him to tight end, and the position change unlocked one of college football's most productive pass-catchers at the spot.
Full scouting report →5. Vicari Swain — CB, South Carolina
Up 54 spots since Oct 5: #101 → #47 on the consensus board.Vicari Swain is a redshirt junior cornerback at South Carolina whose 2025 season served as his breakout and put him on early 2027 boards as a riser, following the path of former Gamecock teammate Brandon Cisse, who went just outside the top 50 to Green Bay in April. A four-star recruit out of Carrollton, Georgia, Swain redshirted in 2023 and worked as a rotational piece in a crowded secondary in 2024 before taking on a bigger role.
Full scouting report →Fallers
1. Kemari Copeland — DL5T, Virginia Tech
Down 166 spots since Oct 5: #124 → #290 on the consensus board.Kemari Copeland is a compact interior defensive lineman who wins with power. He took one of the longest roads in the class to reach the ACC.
Full scouting report →2. CJ Bailey — QB, NC State
Down 151 spots since Oct 5: #112 → #263 on the consensus board.CJ Bailey is a 6-6, 213-pound junior at NC State whose physical profile looks like a first-round quarterback the moment he steps off the bus, and the evaluations of him swing wildly from there. Sparkscouting calls him a towering, big-armed creator with one of the highest ceilings in college football and puts a top-10, QB1 grade on him; Sam Teets at Sportstalk gives him a sixth-round grade and argues he is several seasons away from being useful in the NFL; Vikings Wire lands in between with a fourth-round grade and the profile of an old-school pocket passer.
Full scouting report →3. Cole Sullivan — LB, Oklahoma
Down 151 spots since Oct 5: #140 → #291 on the consensus board.Cole Sullivan is a redshirt sophomore linebacker who transferred from Michigan to Oklahoma in search of the full-time role the Wolverines never had open for him. A Pittsburgh native and former four-star recruit out of Central Catholic, he checks in at 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, size that lets him play on the second level without being moved.
Full scouting report →4. Drew Azzopardi — OT, Washington
Down 122 spots since Oct 5: #119 → #241 on the consensus board.Drew Azzopardi is one of the better developmental stories in the 2027 offensive tackle group, a former three-star recruit (Class of 2022) who reinvented himself at Washington after a rough first year in the Big Ten. As a 2024 starter he allowed 31 pressures and 7 sacks with only 9.
Full scouting report →5. Andrew Sprague — OT, Michigan
Down 88 spots since Oct 5: #121 → #209 on the consensus board.Twelve starts at right tackle as a redshirt freshman in the Big Ten is its own scouting report. Andrew Sprague grew up in Kansas City and starred at Rockhurst High School as a two-way lineman who helped the school reach the Class 6 state semifinals, and he committed to Michigan over Notre Dame as a consensus four-star ranked inside the top 120 nationally.
Full scouting report →New to the Top 50
- Ellis Robinson IVCB — NA, Georgia, now #5
- Brauntae JohnsonS — NA, Notre Dame, now #11
- KJ BoldenS — NA, Georgia, now #14
- Kingston LopaS — NA, California, now #18
- Zereoue Williams — OT, Utah, now #23