Darien Porter
Las Vegas RaidersModel 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 · 17 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
Rookie tier 8 (#64) for a 68th overall 3rd-round pick is on the year-one band for Day 2 CB prospects. The Iowa State Big 12 2024 First-Team All-Big-12 honors plus the structural Raiders anchor role gives him real college foundation. The 2026 question is whether Porter crosses into tier 6-7 territory in his year-two jump or whether the role compresses to swing depth.
Porter came out of Iowa State as the Las Vegas Raiders' 3rd-round pick (68th overall) in 2025 after earning 2024 First-Team All-Big-12 honors. The Raiders used him in the CB rotation as a rookie. His first STTM appearance comes in 2025 at tier 8 (#64), the year-one developmental band for 3rd-round CB prospects.
Strengths
- Iowa State Big 12 2024 First-Team All-Big-12 honors plus the 68th overall draft slot gives him real college foundation.
- Year-one rotational reps for the Raiders at age 22 plus the structural anchor reps gives him the developmental runway.
Concerns
- Rookie tier 8 (#64) is on the year-one band for 3rd-round CB picks but below the breakout-tier expectations.
- Las Vegas's broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year rebuild compresses the structural support around Porter.
What to watch: Whether Porter crosses into tier 6 (top 50) in 2026, the standard year-two threshold for 3rd-round CB picks on stable-starter trajectories.