Jalyx Hunt
Philadelphia EaglesModel Score
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
Draft & College
He went about where consensus had him.
Comps
STM Take
Tier 8 (#88) rookie to tier 3 (#20) sophomore plus the Super Bowl LIX ring puts Hunt in the rare class of FCS-origin Day 2 picks with both a championship ring and a tier 3 breakout in year two. The Cornell-to-Houston-Christian-to-Eagles path is one of the most unusual developmental arcs at the position. The 2026 question is whether Hunt holds tier 3 or better across a full third season or whether the 2025 breakout was tied to the Eagles' Super Bowl-winning defensive context.
Hunt came out of Houston Christian (FCS) as the Philadelphia Eagles' 3rd-round pick (94th overall) in 2024 after transferring from Cornell, an Ivy League-to-FCS-to-NFL path that's exceptionally rare. The Eagles used him in the rotation as a rookie, then he emerged into a structural role in 2025 as part of the Super Bowl LIX-winning roster. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#88) rookie to tier 3 (#20) breakout in 2025.
Strengths
- Super Bowl LIX ring plus tier 3 (#20) sophomore breakout for a 94th overall FCS prospect with an Ivy League origin puts him in the rarest outlier-positive class at the position.
- 68-spot year-over-year jump from tier 8 (#88) rookie to tier 3 (#20) sophomore shows steep developmental trajectory.
Concerns
- Single tier 3 finish without prior top-50 STTM history puts the 2025 breakout entirely in the one-year-sample risk category.
- Philadelphia's broader defensive identity around the Super Bowl LIX scheme creates the question of whether Hunt's ceiling is system-dependent.
What to watch: Whether Hunt holds tier 4 or better across the full 2026 season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural rather than situational.