Jaylan Ford
New Orleans SaintsPos LB
Updated August 24, 2026
Draft & College
Round 5, pick 175 · New Orleans Saints · 2024
Texas (Big 12)
Taken
#175
where he actually went
Consensus board
187th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#7
among LB in our college data
He went about where consensus had him.
In college · 2020-2023 · 46 games
272 tackles, 28 TFL, 3.0 sacks, 6 INT
Covers the college seasons in our data, which does not always reach back to a player's first year.
What this pick usually becomes
Of the 500 players taken as a fifth or sixth-rounder between 2012 and 2021, 26% earned a second contract and 16% became starters. The median one started 2 career games.