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Cole Holcomb

Pittsburgh Steelers
Pos LB
Updated August 24, 2026

Model Score

84.0 MODEL
2019
74.2
2020
89.0
2021
86.2
2022
84.5
2023
84.0

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 →

Draft & College

Round 5, pick 173 · Washington Commanders · 2019
North Carolina (ACC)
Taken
#173
where he actually went
Consensus board
212th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#292
among LB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2016-2018 · 35 games · partial record
312 tackles, 16 TFL, 2.5 sacks

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.

Comps

College career
his college career vs theirs

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