David Long
New Orleans SaintsPos LB
Updated September 5, 2026
Model Score
70.7
MODEL
2020
73.4
2021
79.0
2022
76.9
2023
75.0
2024
70.7
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 →
Draft & College
Round 6, pick 188 · 2019
West Virginia (Big 12)
Taken
#188
where he actually went
Consensus board
74th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#112
among LB in our college data
He lasted longer than consensus.
In college · 2016-2018 · 35 games · partial record
237 tackles, 36 TFL, 11.5 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.