Brandin Echols
Pittsburgh SteelersPos CB
Updated October 9, 2026
Model Score
68.7
MODEL
2021
75.3
2024
69.0
2025
71.3
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 →
Comps
Coming out
pros whose college production, size and testing looked like his
Names you know nearby: Troy Hill ’15 56%.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 4 starters, 14 backups, 1 didn't stick.
Brandin Echols Injury StatusNot listed
Brandin Echols is not on the injury report as of Oct 8. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
Draft & College
Round 6, pick 200 · New York Jets · 2021
Kentucky (SEC)
Taken
#200
where he actually went
Consensus board
172nd
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#805
among CB in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2019-2020 · 22 games
1 INT, 11 pass breakups, 108 tackles, 4 TFL
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 500 players taken as a fifth or sixth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 26% earned a second contract and 16% became starters. The median one started 2 career games.