Benjamin St-Juste
Model 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 · 16 games
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Comps
STM Take
Tier 8 (#96) Washington to tier 3 (#22) Chargers in one year is a 74-spot one-year jump that confirms the change-of-scenery to the Chargers' Jim Harbaugh defensive scheme as the catalyst. The Minnesota Big Ten 3rd-round Canadian-origin pedigree plus five years of NFL development give him real journeyman veteran value. The 2026 question is whether St-Juste holds tier 4 or better across a full second Chargers season or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.
St-Juste came out of Minnesota as the Washington Commanders' 3rd-round pick (74th overall) in 2021, born in Montreal, Canada. He spent four years in Washington before signing with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2025 free agency. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#113) rookie, tier 7 (#56) in 2022, tier 6 (#43) in 2023, tier 8 (#96) in 2024, and tier 3 (#22) breakout in 2025 with the Chargers.
Strengths
- 74-spot year-over-year jump from tier 8 (#96) Washington to tier 3 (#22) Chargers confirms the structural ceiling is reachable in the right team-fit.
- Montreal-born Canadian pedigree plus the Minnesota Big Ten 3rd-round origin gives him real international-pathway veteran market value.
Concerns
- Career STTM range mostly tier 6-8 before the 2025 breakout confirms the structural ceiling is highly team-fit and scheme dependent.
- Chargers' broader defensive identity around Khalil Mack's primary pass-rush priority puts continued St-Juste production partly dependent on team-fit.
What to watch: Whether St-Juste holds tier 4 or better across the full 2026 Chargers season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural.
