Carl Granderson

New Orleans Saints

Pos EDGE

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

77.7 MODEL

2020

71.1

2021

71.7

2022

74.6

2023

86.7

2024

78.0

2025

76.6

2026

77.7

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 →

STM Take

Tier 2 (#16) peak in 2023 to back-to-back tier 7-8 finishes in 2024-2025 confirms the 2023 finish was situational rather than structural. The Wyoming Mountain West UDFA origin plus seven years of NFL survival gives him real journeyman value. The 2026 question is whether Granderson returns to tier 6 territory or whether the structural tier 7-8 baseline becomes the late-career ceiling.

Granderson came out of Wyoming as a 2019 undrafted free agent signed by the New Orleans Saints. He spent four years as developmental depth before emerging into a tier 2 (#16) breakout in 2023 after 8 sacks. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#65) in 2021, tier 8 (#60) in 2022, tier 2 (#16) peak in 2023, tier 7 (#52) in 2024, and tier 8 (#59) in 2025.

Strengths

2023 tier 2 (#16) peak as a 2019 UDFA confirms a top-20 EDGE ceiling existed in the right team-fit environment.
Seven years of NFL survival as a Wyoming UDFA gives him real journeyman veteran value.

Concerns

Two straight tier 7-8 finishes (2024, 2025) after the 2023 peak confirms the structural ceiling has compressed back to the pre-breakout baseline.
New Orleans's broader defensive identity transition plus the multi-year rebuild compresses the structural support around Granderson.

What to watch: Whether Granderson returns to tier 6 (top 50) in 2026, the threshold for confirming the 2023 peak ceiling can be recaptured.