Jaylinn Hawkins

Baltimore Ravens

Pos S

Updated October 8, 2026

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Model Score

74.6 MODEL

2021

68.0

2022

75.9

2024

69.7

2025

80.2

2026

74.6

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 →

STM Take

Tier 8 (#93) in 2024 to tier 3 (#24) breakout in 2025 is a 69-spot one-year jump for a 134th overall 4th-round pick. The California Pac-12 4th-round origin plus six years of NFL development give him basic veteran market value. The 2026 question is whether Hawkins holds tier 4 or better across a full second Patriots starter season or whether the 2025 finish was a one-year context spike.

Hawkins came out of California as the Atlanta Falcons' 4th-round pick (134th overall) in 2020. He bounced through the Falcons before signing with the New England Patriots. His STTM career runs tier 8 (#87) in 2021, tier 7 (#50) in 2022, tier 8 (#93) in 2024, and tier 3 (#24) breakout in 2025.

Strengths

69-spot year-over-year jump from tier 8 (#93) in 2024 to tier 3 (#24) in 2025 puts him in the rare outlier-positive late-career S breakout class.
California Pac-12 4th-round origin plus six years of NFL survival gives him real journeyman veteran value.

Concerns

Single tier 3 finish in an otherwise tier 7-8 STTM history puts the 2025 production on a small sample with significant downside risk.
Patriots' broader defensive identity transition plus the QB rebuild compresses the structural support around Hawkins.

What to watch: Whether Hawkins holds tier 4 or better across the full 2026 Patriots season, the threshold for confirming the 2025 breakout was structural.