Darius Alexander

New York Giants

Pos IDL

Updated October 8, 2026

Model Score

74.0 MODEL

Resting on limited playing time

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

Rookie tier 6 (#44) for a 94th overall pick with the 2024 MAC DPOY award is on the year-one band for 3rd-round IDL prospects. The Toledo MAC 41-start pedigree plus the Giants' structural interior role gives him real developmental foundation. The 2026 question is whether Alexander crosses into tier 4-5 territory in his year-two jump or whether the structural rookie tier 6 finish becomes the stable baseline.

Alexander came out of Toledo as the New York Giants' 3rd-round pick (94th overall) in 2025 after starting 41 games for the Rockets and earning 2024 MAC Defensive Player of the Year honors. The Giants installed him in the interior rotation as a rookie. His first STTM appearance comes in 2025 at tier 6 (#44), the year-one developmental band for 3rd-round IDL prospects.

Strengths

2024 MAC Defensive Player of the Year plus 41 college starts plus the 94th overall draft slot gives him real Group of Five pedigree.
Year-one starter snaps for the Giants at age 23 in the structural interior role gives him the developmental runway.

Concerns

Rookie tier 6 (#44) is on the year-one band for 3rd-round IDL picks rather than the breakout-tier outcome.
Giants' broader defensive identity transition plus the multi-year offensive rebuild compresses the structural support around Alexander.

What to watch: Whether Alexander crosses into tier 4 (top 30) in 2026, the standard year-two threshold for 3rd-round IDL picks on Pro Bowl trajectories.

Comps

Coming out

pros whose college production, size and testing looked like his

B.J. Hill61%A'Shawn Robinson60%Angelo Blackson57%

Darius Alexander Injury StatusNot listed

Darius Alexander is not on the injury report as of Oct 7. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 3, pick 65 · New York Giants · 2025

Toledo (Mid-American)

Taken

#65

where he actually went

Consensus board

56th

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#136

among IDL in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2020-2024 · 56 games

8.5 sacks, 21 TFL, 18 pressures, 124 tackles

Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.

Coming out

9.16

RAS

4.95s

40 yd

28 reps

Bench

31"

Vertical

111"

Broad

7.6s

3-cone

4.79s

Shuttle

What this pick usually becomes

Of the 410 players taken as a third-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 51% earned a second contract and 39% became starters. The median one started 21 career games.