Anfernee Jennings
New Orleans SaintsModel Score
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
Season Stats · 14 games
Draft & College
He went earlier than consensus.
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Comps
STM Take
Five career tier 8 STTM finishes (2020-2024) to tier 7 (#51) breakout in 2025 is a 46-spot one-year jump for a 3rd-round pick. The Alabama 2017 CFP National Championship pedigree plus six years of Patriots developmental work gives him basic veteran value. The 2026 question is whether Jennings crosses into tier 6 territory or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.
Jennings came out of Alabama as the New England Patriots' 3rd-round pick (87th overall) in 2020 after winning the 2017 CFP National Championship as the Crimson Tide's starting edge rusher. He has spent six years with the Patriots as a rotational rusher behind multiple lead edges. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#148) rookie, tier 8 (#102) in 2022, tier 8 (#79) in 2023, tier 8 (#97) in 2024, and tier 7 (#51) breakout in 2025.
Strengths
- Alabama 2017 CFP National Championship ring plus six years of NFL survival as a 3rd-round pick gives him basic championship veteran résumé.
- 46-spot year-over-year improvement from tier 8 (#97) in 2024 to tier 7 (#51) in 2025 shows late-career developmental trajectory.
Concerns
- Five career tier 8 STTM finishes before the 2025 breakout confirms the structural ceiling has historically capped at low-end rotational depth.
- Patriots' broader defensive identity transition plus the QB rebuild compresses the structural support around Jennings's late-career role.
What to watch: Whether Jennings crosses into tier 6 (top 50) in 2026, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural rather than a one-year context spike.