Grady Jarrett

Chicago Bears

Pos IDL

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

82.2 MODEL

2018

88.3

2019

93.0

2020

88.3

2021

78.0

2022

88.3

2023

73.4

2024

81.5

2025

74.2

2026

82.2

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

Two Pro Bowls plus Super Bowl LI 3-sack performance plus 11 years of NFL survival as a 5th-round pick puts Jarrett in the rarest outlier-positive draft-slot-vs-outcome class at the position. The Clemson ACC origin plus the Atlanta chapter establishes the career résumé. The 2026 question is whether Jarrett holds tier 5 or better at age 33 with Chicago or whether the structural late-career decline closes the elite chapter.

Jarrett came out of Clemson as the Atlanta Falcons' 5th-round pick (137th overall) in 2015 and made two Pro Bowls (2019, 2022). He recorded 3 sacks in Super Bowl LI for Atlanta. He spent 10 years in Atlanta before signing with the Chicago Bears in 2025. His STTM career runs tier 5 (#37) in 2021, tier 3 (#19) in 2022 Pro Bowl, tier 4 (#31) in 2023, tier 3 (#22) in 2024, and tier 6 (#43) in 2025.

Strengths

Two Pro Bowls plus Super Bowl LI 3-sack performance plus 11 years of NFL survival as a 5th-round pick establishes outlier-positive career résumé.
Career STTM range mostly tier 3-5 across the past five years confirms structural starter ceiling existed across multiple Atlanta coaching transitions.

Concerns

21-spot regression from tier 3 (#22) in 2024 to tier 6 (#43) in 2025 confirms the structural late-career decline plus the change-of-scenery context.
Age 33 plus 11 years of interior-line wear puts the late-career closure question on every 2026 projection.

What to watch: Whether Jarrett holds tier 5 or better in 2026 with Chicago, the threshold for confirming the late-prime ceiling holds.