James Pearce Jr.
Atlanta FalconsUNDERPAIDPos EDGE
Updated October 8, 2026
Model Score
78.5
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 →
James Pearce Jr. Injury StatusNot listed
James Pearce Jr. is not on the injury report as of Oct 8. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
Draft & College
Round 1, pick 26 · Atlanta Falcons · 2025
Tennessee (SEC)
Taken
#26
where he actually went
Consensus board
20th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#40
among EDGE in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2022-2024 · 36 games
19.0 sacks, 29 TFL, 45 pressures, 70 tackles
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
Coming out
9.4
RAS
4.47s
40 yd
31"
Vertical
123"
Broad
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 220 players taken as a late first-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 70% earned a second contract and 72% became starters. The median one started 58 career games.