Francisco Mauigoa

New York Jets

Pos LB

Updated October 8, 2026

Model Score

74.6 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 7 (#49) for a 176th overall 5th-round pick is on the upper end of the year-one band for Day 3 LB prospects. The Miami ACC 36-start pedigree plus the structural Jets linebacker rotation gives him basic college foundation. The 2026 question is whether Mauigoa crosses into tier 6 territory in his year-two jump or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

Mauigoa came out of Miami as the New York Jets' 5th-round pick (176th overall) in 2025 after starting 36 games for the Hurricanes. The Jets used him in the linebacker rotation as a rookie. His first STTM appearance comes in 2025 at tier 7 (#49), an unusually strong year-one finish for a Day 3 5th-round pick.

Strengths

Rookie tier 7 (#49) finish for a 176th overall 5th-round pick puts him on the upper end of the year-one Day 3 LB developmental band.
Miami ACC 36-start pedigree plus year-one starter snaps at age 22 gives him the developmental runway.

Concerns

Single tier 7 finish without prior STTM history caps the long-term projection certainty.
Jets' broader defensive identity instability plus the multi-year offensive rebuild compresses the structural support around Mauigoa.

What to watch: Whether Mauigoa crosses into tier 6 (top 50) in 2026, the standard year-two threshold for Day 3 LB picks on stable-starter trajectories.

Comps

Coming out

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Francisco Mauigoa Injury StatusQuestionable

Francisco Mauigoa is listed Questionable (Quadriceps), reported Oct 6. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.

Draft & College

Round 5, pick 162 · New York Jets · 2025

Miami (ACC)

Taken

#162

where he actually went

Consensus board

222nd

average of the public big boards that spring

Our college model

#60

among LB in our college data

He went earlier than consensus.

In college · 2021-2024 · 48 games

251 tackles, 34 TFL, 13.0 sacks, 3 INT

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

Coming out

9.22

RAS

4.6s

40 yd

35"

Vertical

121"

Broad

7.15s

3-cone

4.24s

Shuttle

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.