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Jaylen Harrell

Tennessee Titans
Pos EDGE
Updated August 24, 2026

Model Score

68.9 MODEL
2024
65.5
2025
68.9

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

4.557th
Sacks
1185th
Pressures
387th
QB Hits
569th
TFL
2592nd
Tackles
130th
FF

Draft & College

Round 7, pick 252 · Tennessee Titans · 2024
Michigan (Big Ten)
Taken
#252
where he actually went
Consensus board
212th
average of the public big boards that spring
Our college model
#607
among EDGE in our college data

He went about where consensus had him.

In college · 2021-2023 · 39 games
11.0 sacks, 20 TFL, 22 pressures, 72 tackles

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

STM Take

Tier 8 (#139) rookie to tier 7 (#55) sophomore is an 84-spot one-year jump for a 6th-round pick that puts Harrell on the developmental band for late-round EDGE prospects. The Michigan 2023 CFP National Championship pedigree plus the 6th-round origin makes the year-two jump remarkable. The 2026 question is whether Harrell crosses into tier 6 territory or whether the structural tier 7 finish becomes the realistic ceiling.

Harrell came out of Michigan as the Tennessee Titans' 6th-round pick (212th overall) in 2024 after winning the 2023 CFP National Championship with the Wolverines. He spent his rookie year as developmental depth, then emerged into a structural role in 2025. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#139) rookie to tier 7 (#55) in 2025, an 84-spot year-over-year jump.

Strengths

  • Michigan 2023 CFP National Championship ring plus 84-spot year-over-year STTM jump puts him in the rarer outlier-positive Day 3 EDGE class.
  • Tier 7 (#55) sophomore finish for a 212th overall pick puts him above his draft-slot expectation.

Concerns

  • Single tier 7 finish without prior top-100 STTM history puts the 2025 production on a small sample with downside risk.
  • Tennessee's broader defensive identity transition compresses the structural support around Harrell's developmental chapter.

What to watch: Whether Harrell crosses into tier 6 (top 50) in 2026, the threshold for confirming the year-two jump was structural rather than situational.

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