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Isaiah Rodgers

Minnesota Vikings
Pos CB
Updated August 24, 2026

Model Score

69.4 MODEL
2021
70.9
2022
70.0
2022
70.3
2024
68.9
2025
69.4

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

138th
INT
492nd
Pass Deflections
62.4%72nd
Comp % Allowed
7.568th
Yds / Target
234th
TD Allowed
4625th
Solo Tackles

Draft & College

Round 6, pick 211 · Indianapolis Colts · 2020
Massachusetts (FBS Independents)
Taken
#211
where he actually went
Consensus board
179th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#15
among CB in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2016-2019 · 48 games · partial record
11 INT, 34 pass breakups, 188 tackles, 10 TFL

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

Comps

Overall match
size, testing and production, same career stage
Plays like
on-field production only
College career
his college career vs theirs

STM Take

Super Bowl LIX ring plus the 2023 gambling-violation full-season suspension plus the multi-team chapter puts Rodgers in the rare late-bloomer-with-suspension CB class. The UMass FCS 6th-round origin plus six years of NFL survival give him real journeyman veteran value. The 2026 question is whether Rodgers holds tier 7 or better with the Vikings or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

Rodgers came out of UMass as the Indianapolis Colts' 6th-round pick (211th overall) in 2020. He was suspended for the entire 2023 season for gambling violations before signing with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2024 and winning Super Bowl LIX. He signed with the Minnesota Vikings in 2025. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#59) in 2021, tier 6 (#48) in 2022, tier 8 (#60) in 2024, and tier 8 (#57) in 2025.

Strengths

  • Super Bowl LIX ring plus six years of NFL survival as a UMass FCS 6th-round pick gives him real championship-pedigree journeyman value.
  • Multi-team experience across three systems gives him real plug-in CB veteran depth value.

Concerns

  • Career STTM range mostly tier 6-8 plus the 2023 full-season suspension confirms the structural ceiling has rarely climbed above rotational depth.
  • Minnesota's broader defensive identity around Brian Flores's exotic scheme puts continued Rodgers ceiling partly scheme-dependent.

What to watch: Whether Rodgers holds tier 7 or better in 2026 with the Vikings or whether the role compresses to swing depth.

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