Isaiah Simmons
Carolina PanthersPos LB
Updated August 24, 2026
Model Score
85.4
MODEL
2020
94.2
2021
89.0
2022
85.4
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 →
Draft & College
Round 1, pick 8 · Arizona Cardinals · 2020
Clemson (ACC)
Taken
#8
where he actually went
Consensus board
5th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#57
among LB in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2019 · 13 games
8.0 sacks, 16 TFL, 13 pressures, 104 tackles
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Coming out
4.39s
40 yd
39"
Vertical
132"
Broad
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 100 players taken as a top-10 pick between 2012 and 2021, 83% earned a second contract and 75% became starters. The median one started 81 career games.